The Effects of Meaning and Emotional Content of a Sentence on the Kinematics of a Successive Motor Sequence Mimiking the Feeding of a Conspecific.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Do the emotional content and meaning of sentences affect the kinematics of successive motor sequences?

Material and methods

Participants observed video-clips of an actor pronouncing sentences expressing positive or negative emotions and meanings (related to happiness or anger in Experiment 1 and food admiration or food disgust in Experiment 2). Then, they reached-to-grasp and placed a sugar lump on the actor's mouth. Participants acted in response to sentences whose content could convey (1) emotion (i.e., face expression and prosody) and meaning, (2) meaning alone, or (3) emotion alone. Within each condition, the kinematic effects of sentences expressing positive and negative emotions were compared. Stimuli (positive for food admiration and negative for food disgust), co

SUBMITTER: De Stefani E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4860854 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature