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@article{Lindemannetal06, abstract = {Four experiments investigated activation of semantic information in action preparation. Participants either prepared to grasp and use an object (e.g., to drink from a cup) or to lift a finger in association with the object's position following a go/no-go lexical-decision task. Word stimuli were consistent to the action goals of the object use (Experiment 1) or to the finger lifting (Experiment 2). Movement onset times yielded a double dissociation of consistency effects between action preparation and word processing. This effect was also present for semantic categorizations (Experiment 3), but disappeared when introducing a letter identification task (Experiment 4). In sum, our findings indicate that action semantics are activated selectively in accordance with the specific action intention of an actor.}, address = {Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands. o.lindemann@nici.ru.nl}, author = {Lindemann, O. and Stenneken, P. and van Schie, H. T. and Bekkering, H.}, citeulike-article-id = {2843832}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.633}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16822129}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16822129}, doi = {10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.633}, issn = {0096-1523}, journal = {Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance}, keywords = {cognition, comprehension, dutch, language, lexicon, motor-control, motor-execution, representation, semantics}, month = {June}, number = {3}, pages = {633--643}, posted-at = {2008-05-29 09:31:04}, priority = {0}, title = {Semantic activation in action planning.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.633}, volume = {32}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - Lindemannetal06 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2843832 N2 - Four experiments investigated activation of semantic information in action preparation. Participants either prepared to grasp and use an object (e.g., to drink from a cup) or to lift a finger in association with the object's position following a go/no-go lexical-decision task. Word stimuli were consistent to the action goals of the object use (Experiment 1) or to the finger lifting (Experiment 2). Movement onset times yielded a double dissociation of consistency effects between action preparation and word processing. This effect was also present for semantic categorizations (Experiment 3), but disappeared when introducing a letter identification task (Experiment 4). In sum, our findings indicate that action semantics are activated selectively in accordance with the specific action intention of an actor. IS - 3 JF - Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance SN - 0096-1523 AD - Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, Netherlands. o.lindemann@nici.ru.nl EP - 643 TI - Semantic activation in action planning. VL - 32 SP - 633 KW - cognition KW - comprehension KW - dutch KW - language KW - lexicon KW - motor-control KW - motor-execution KW - representation KW - semantics AU - Lindemann, O AU - Stenneken, P AU - van Schie, HT AU - Bekkering, H PY - 2006/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.32.3.633 ER -