@misc{10481/92127,
year = {2024},
month = {2},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/10481/92127},
abstract = {Embodied cognition theories predict a functional involvement of sensorimotor processes in language understanding.
In a preregistered experiment, we tested this idea by investigating whether interfering with primary
motor cortex (M1) activation can change how people construe meaning from action language. Participants were
presented with sentences describing actions (e.g., "turning off the light”) and asked to choose between two interpretations
of their meaning, one more concrete (e.g., "flipping a switch") and another more abstract (e.g.,
"going to sleep"). Prior to this task, participants’ M1 was disrupted using repetitive transcranial magnetic
stimulation (rTMS). The results yielded strong evidence against the idea that M1-rTMS affects meaning construction
(BF01 > 30). Additional analyses and control experiments suggest that the absence of effect cannot be
accounted for by failure to inhibit M1, lack of construct validity of the task, or lack of power to detect a small
effect. In sum, these results do not support a causal role for primary motor cortex in building meaning from
action language.},
organization = {Project PGC2018–096096-B-I00,
funded by FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - Agencia Estatal
de Investigación},
organization = {Project PY20_00689,
funded by FEDER/Junta de Andalucía-Consejería de Transformación
Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades},
organization = {Junta de Andalucía (I + D + I Programa 1149
Operativo FEDER Andalucía, 2014–2020, B.SEJ.570.UGR20)},
organization = {MCIN/AEI/(research projects PSI2017-88136 and PID2020-1147 119033 GBI00)},
organization = {ERDF A way of making Europe},
organization = {FPU
predoctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU20/01946)},
publisher = {Elsevier},
keywords = {Embodied cognition},
keywords = {Language comprehension},
keywords = {Motor cortex},
title = {No support for a causal role of primary motor cortex in construing meaning from language: An rTMS study},
doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108832},
author = {Solana, Pablo and Escámez, Omar and Casasanto, Daniel and Chica, Ana B. and Santiago De Torres, Julio Ramón},
}