The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology Export

@article{Haucketal08, abstract = {Numerous previous neuroimaging studies suggest an involvement of cortical motor areas not only in action execution but also in action recognition and understanding. Motor areas of the human brain have also been found to activate during the processing of written and spoken action-related words and sentences. Even more strikingly, stimuli referring to different bodily effectors produced specific somatotopic activation patterns in the motor areas. However, metabolic neuroimaging results can be ambiguous with respect to the processing stage they reflect. This is a serious limitation when hypotheses concerning linguistic processes are tested, since in this case it is usually crucial to distinguish early lexico-semantic processing from strategic effects or mental imagery that may follow lexico-semantic information access. Timing information is therefore pivotal to determine the functional significance of motor areas in action recognition and action-word comprehension. Here, we review attempts to reveal the time course of these processes using neurophysiological methods (EEG, MEG and TMS), in visual and auditory domains. We will highlight the importance of the choice of appropriate paradigms in combination with the corresponding method for the extraction of timing information. The findings will be discussed in the general context of putative brain mechanisms of word and object recognition.}, author = {Hauk, O. and Shtyrov, Y. and Pulvermuller, F.}, citeulike-article-id = {4664364}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.013}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0928425708000181}, doi = {10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.013}, issn = {09284257}, journal = {Journal of Physiology-Paris}, keywords = {action, cognition, cognitive-architecture, eeg, language, meg, motor-cortex, semantics, tms}, month = {January}, number = {1-3}, pages = {50--58}, posted-at = {2009-06-08 19:56:07}, priority = {2}, title = {The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.013}, volume = {102}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - Haucketal08 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4664364 N2 - Numerous previous neuroimaging studies suggest an involvement of cortical motor areas not only in action execution but also in action recognition and understanding. Motor areas of the human brain have also been found to activate during the processing of written and spoken action-related words and sentences. Even more strikingly, stimuli referring to different bodily effectors produced specific somatotopic activation patterns in the motor areas. However, metabolic neuroimaging results can be ambiguous with respect to the processing stage they reflect. This is a serious limitation when hypotheses concerning linguistic processes are tested, since in this case it is usually crucial to distinguish early lexico-semantic processing from strategic effects or mental imagery that may follow lexico-semantic information access. Timing information is therefore pivotal to determine the functional significance of motor areas in action recognition and action-word comprehension. Here, we review attempts to reveal the time course of these processes using neurophysiological methods (EEG, MEG and TMS), in visual and auditory domains. We will highlight the importance of the choice of appropriate paradigms in combination with the corresponding method for the extraction of timing information. The findings will be discussed in the general context of putative brain mechanisms of word and object recognition. IS - 1-3 JF - Journal of Physiology-Paris SN - 09284257 EP - 58 TI - The time course of action and action-word comprehension in the human brain as revealed by neurophysiology VL - 102 SP - 50 KW - action KW - cognition KW - cognitive-architecture KW - eeg KW - language KW - meg KW - motor-cortex KW - semantics KW - tms AU - Hauk, O AU - Shtyrov, Y AU - Pulvermuller, F PY - 2008/01// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.013 ER -