Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors.

ABSTRACT: According to embodied and grounded theories, concepts are grounded in sensorimotor systems. The majority of evidence supporting these views concerns concepts referring to objects or actions, while evidence on abstract concepts is more scarce. Explaining how abstract concepts such as "freedom" are represented would thus be pivotal for grounded theories. According to some recent proposals, abstract concepts are grounded in both sensorimotor and linguistic experience, thus they activate the mouth motor system more than concrete concepts. Two experiments are reported, aimed at verifying whether abstract, concrete and emotional words activate the mouth and the hand effectors. In both experiments participants performed first a lexical decision, then a recognition task. In Experiment 1 participan

SUBMITTER: Mazzuca C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6287580 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature