Spatial and Motor Aspects in the "Action-Sentence Compatibility Effect".

ABSTRACT: The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is often taken as supporting the fundamental role of the motor system in understanding sentences that describe actions. This effect would be related to an internal "simulation," i.e., the reactivation of past perceptual and motor experiences. However, it is not easy to establish whether this simulation predominantly involves spatial imagery or motor anticipation. In the classical ACE experiments, where a real motor response is required, the direction and motor representations are mixed. In order to disentangle spatial and motor aspects involved in the ACE, we performed six experiments in different conditions, where the motor component was always reduced, asking participants to judge the sensibility of sentences by moving a mouse, thus requirin

SUBMITTER: Greco A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8062728 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature