Xue Jin, Marmolejo-Ramos Fernando, Pei Xuna
School of English Language, Literature and Culture and Centre for Language and Cognition, Beijing International Studies University, Beijing, China.
Gösta Ekman Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Brain Res. 2015 Jul 10;1613:37-48. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2015.03.050. Epub 2015 Apr 7.
Embodied theories of cognition argue that the processing of both concrete and abstract concepts requires the activation of sensorimotor systems. The present study examined the time course for embedding a sensorimotor context in order to elicit sensitivity to the sensorimotor consequences of understanding body-object interaction (BOI) words. In the study, Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) were recorded while subjects performed a sentence acceptability task. Target BOI words were preceded by rich or poor sensorimotor sentential contexts. The behavioural results replicated previous findings in that high BOI words received a response faster than low BOI words. In addition to this, however, there was a context effect in the sensorimotor region as well as a BOI effect in the parietal region (involved in object representation). The results indicate that the sentential sensorimotor context contributes to the subsequent BOI processing and that action-and perception-related language leads to the activation of the same brain areas, which is consistent with the embodiment theory.
具身认知理论认为，具体概念和抽象概念的处理都需要激活感觉运动系统。本研究考察了嵌入感觉运动情境以引发对理解身体 - 物体交互（BOI）词汇的感觉运动后果敏感性的时间进程。在该研究中，当受试者执行句子可接受性任务时记录事件相关电位（ERP）。目标BOI词汇之前有丰富或贫乏的感觉运动句子情境。行为结果重复了先前的发现，即高BOI词汇比低BOI词汇获得更快的反应。然而除此之外，感觉运动区域存在情境效应，顶叶区域（涉及物体表征）存在BOI效应。结果表明，句子感觉运动情境有助于后续的BOI处理，且与动作和感知相关的语言会导致相同脑区的激活，这与具身理论一致。
