A growing body of research suggests that comprehending verbal descriptions of actions
relies on an internal simulation of the described action. To assess this motor resonance …

Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding
motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 …

The purpose of the paper is to study whether sentence comprehension modulates the motor
system. Participants were presented with 24 pairs of nouns and verbs that could be referred …

Embodied theories of language processing suggest that this motor simulation is an
automatic and necessary component of meaning representation. If this is the case, then …

Empirical research has shown that the processing of words and sentences is accompanied
by activation of the brain's motor system in language users. The degree of precision …

Neuroimaging and behavioral studies have revealed involvement of the brain's motor
system in language comprehension. The Linguistic-Focus Hypothesis [Taylor, LJ, & Zwaan …

When processing sentences about perceptible scenes and performable actions, language
understanders activate perceptual and motor systems to perform mental simulations of those …

Evocation of motor representations during sentence comprehension was examined by
training subjects to make a hand action in response to a visual cue while listening to a …

In a recent study Boulenger et al.(2006) found that processing action verbs assisted
reaching movement when the word was processed prior to movement onset and interfered …

Recently developed accounts of language comprehension propose that sentences are
understood by constructing a perceptual simulation of the events being described. These …