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Direct linkWillems, Roel M.; Toni, Ivan; Hagoort, Peter; Casasanto, Daniel – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2010
According to embodied theories of language, people understand a verb like "throw", at least in part, by mentally simulating "throwing". This implicit simulation is often assumed to be similar or identical to motor imagery. Here we used fMRI to test whether implicit simulations of actions during language understanding involve the same cortical…
Descriptors: Verbs, Simulation, Imagination, Language Processing
