Does the involvement of motor cortex in embodied language comprehension stand on solid ground? A p-curve analysis and test for excess significance of the TMS and tDCS evidence Solana Romero, Pablo Santiago De Torres, Julio Ramón Embodied cognition Language comprehension Motor system TMS TDCS P-curve analysis Excess significance According to the embodied cognition view, comprehending action-related language requires the participation of sensorimotor processes. A now sizeable literature has tested this proposal by stimulating (with TMS or tDCS) motor brain areas during the comprehension of action language. To assess the evidential value of this body of research, we exhaustively searched the literature and submitted the relevant studies (N = 43) to p-curve analysis. While most published studies concluded in support of the embodiment hypothesis, our results suggest that we cannot yet assert beyond reasonable doubt that they explore real effects. We also found that these studies are quite underpowered (estimated power < 30%), which means that a large percentage of them would not replicate if repeated identically. Additional tests for excess significance show signs of publication bias within this literature. In sum, extant brain stimulation studies testing the grounding of action language in the motor cortex do not stand on solid ground. We provide recommendations that will be important for future research on this topic. 2022-11-24T08:26:41Z 2022-11-24T08:26:41Z 2022-08-28 journal article Pablo Solana, Julio Santiago, Does the involvement of motor cortex in embodied language comprehension stand on solid ground? A p-curve analysis and test for excess significance of the TMS and tDCS evidence, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Volume 141, 2022, 104834, ISSN 0149-7634, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104834] https://hdl.handle.net/10481/78101 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104834 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional Elsevier