grip force is part of the semantic representation of manual action verbs掌控力的手动动作动词的语义表示.pdfVIP

Grip Force Is Part of the Semantic Representation of Manual Action Verbs 1,2 3 2 4 3 Victor Frak *, Tatjana Nazir , Michel Goyette , Henri Cohen , Marc Jeannerod ` ´ ´ ´ ` ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ 1 Departement de kinanthropologie, Universite du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2 Institut de Readaptation Gingras-Lindsay de Montreal, ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ ´ Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en readaptation du Montreal metropolitain, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 3 CNRS UMR 5015, Institut des ´ Sciences Cognitives, Bron, France, 4 CNRS UMR 8189, Universite Paris Descartes, Boulogne-Billancourt, France Abstract Motor actions and action verbs activate similar cortical brain regions. A functional interference can be taken as evidence that there is a parallel treatment of these two types of information and would argue for the biological grounding of language in action. A novel approach examining the relationship between language and grip force is presented. With eyes closed and arm extended, subjects listened to words relating (verbs) or not relating (nouns) to a manual action while holding a cylinder with an integrated force sensor. There was a change in grip force when subjects heard verbs that related to manual action. Grip force increased from about 100 ms following