No Language-Specific Activation during Linguistic Processing of Observed Actions
Ingo G. Meister, Marco Iacoboni · 2007
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Ingo Meister and Marco Iacoboni asked whether language areas switch on when people watch actions with meaning, in PLOS ONE in 2007. One idea holds that language grew out of brain systems for movement. Front and side brain areas that react to watched actions are part of that story.
If language truly grew from those systems, watching an action with a clear message might wake language areas too. The authors tested that expectation and report no language specific activation in their setup. A negative result like this is useful: it sets limits on a popular theory. It pushes the field to say more exactly which systems language and action really share.
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| CREATOR | Ingo G. Meister, Marco Iacoboni |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons Attribution License |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000891