Action (verb) fluency deficits in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: linking language, cognition and interpersonal functioning
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DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2017.07.044
Abstract: Deficits in action (verb) fluency have previously been reported in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. The degree to which this reflects difficulties generating verbs in different semantic categories is unknown. Here, action fluency responses of 46 patients… read more here.
Keywords: schizophrenia spectrum; verb; action verb; spectrum disorders ... See more keywords
Action verb processing specifically modulates motor behaviour and sensorimotor neuronal oscillations
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52426-9
Abstract: Understanding action-related language recruits the brain’s motor system and can interact with motor behaviour. The current study shows MEG oscillatory patterns during verb-motor priming. Hand and foot verbs were followed by hand or foot responses,… read more here.
Keywords: motor behaviour; processing; action verb; motor ... See more keywords
Neurosurgical lesions to sensorimotor cortex do not impair action verb processing
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-57361-3
Abstract: There is ongoing debate regarding the role that sensorimotor regions play in conceptual processing, with embodied theories supporting their direct involvement in processing verbs describing body part movements. Patient lesion studies examining a causal role… read more here.
Keywords: action verb; processing; motor; verb processing ... See more keywords