Is motor inhibition involved in the processing of sentential negation? An assessment via the Stop-Signal Task.

ABSTRACT: In the last decades, the embodied approach to cognition and language gained momentum in the scientific debate, leading to evidence in different aspects of language processing. However, while the bodily grounding of concrete concepts seems to be relatively not controversial, abstract aspects, like the negation logical operator, are still today one of the main challenges for this research paradigm. In this framework, the present study has a twofold aim: (1) to assess whether mechanisms for motor inhibition underpin the processing of sentential negation, thus, providing evidence for a bodily grounding of this logic operator, (2) to determine whether the Stop-Signal Task, which has been used to investigate motor inhibition, could represent a good tool to explore this issue. Twenty-three partic

SUBMITTER: Montalti M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9873753 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature