[HTML][HTML] Negated actions are simulated within the primary motor cortex

W Dupont, C Papaxanthis, L Lurquin, F Lebon… - Neuroscience, 2025 - Elsevier
Controversy persists regarding the representation of linguistically negated actions,
specifically concerning activation and inhibitory mechanisms in the motor system, and …

Reading negative action verbs: one or two-step processing within the primary motor cortex?

W Dupont, C Papaxanthis, L Lurquin, F Lebon… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Controversy persists regarding the representation of negated actions, specifically
concerning activation and inhibitory mechanisms in the motor system, and whether this …

Experimental methods to study distributed comprehension of action language

C Madden-Lombardi, W Dupont - The Routledge Handbook of …, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
“Embodied” or “distributed” theories of language comprehension hypothesise that
processing spoken, or written language invokes not only the traditional language network …

Does the motor cortex want the full story? The influence of sentence context on corticospinal excitability in action language processing

W Dupont, C Papaxanthis, F Lebon… - Neuroscience, 2022 - Elsevier
The reading of action verbs has been shown to activate motor areas, whereby sentence
context may serve to either globally strengthen this activation or to selectively sharpen it. To …

Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations

W Dupont, C Papaxanthis, C Madden-Lombardi… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
While action language and motor imagery both engage the motor system, determining
whether these two processes indeed share the same motor representations would …

The motor cortex wants the full story: The influence of sentence context on corticospinal excitability in action language processing

W Dupont, F Lebon, C Papaxanthis… - 2020 - hal.science
According to the embodied language framework, reading action verbs leads to a mental
representation involving motor cortex activation. As sentence context has been shown to …