Action Semantics – ESC Research

Representation of action semantics in the motor cortex and Broca’s area

Published in: Brain and Language, Volume 179, April 2018, 33-41 Abstract “Previous studies have shown that both reading action words and observing actions engage the motor cortex and Broca’s area, but it is still controversial whether a somatotopic representation exists for action verbs within the motor cortex and whether Broca’s area encodes action-specific semantics for verbs. […]

Parkinson’s disease compromises the appraisal of action meanings evoked by naturalistic texts

Cortex - Journal

Published in: Cortex, Volume 100, March 2018, 111-126 Abstract “The linguistic profile of Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterized by difficulties in processing units which denote bodily movements. However, the available evidence has low ecological validity, as it stems from atomistic tasks which are never encountered in real life. Here, we assessed whether such deficits also occur for meanings evoked by

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