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Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations
While action language and motor imagery both engage the motor system, determining whether these two processes indeed share the same motor representations would contribute to better understanding their underlying mechanisms. We conducted two experiments probing the mutual influence of these two proce...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36816230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13426 |
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author | W, Dupont C, Papaxanthis C, Madden-Lombardi F, Lebon |
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description | While action language and motor imagery both engage the motor system, determining whether these two processes indeed share the same motor representations would contribute to better understanding their underlying mechanisms. We conducted two experiments probing the mutual influence of these two processes. In Exp.1, hand-action verbs were presented subliminally, and participants (n = 36) selected the verb they thought they perceived from two alternatives. When congruent actions were imagined prior to this task, accuracy significantly increased, i.e. participants were better able to “see” the subliminal verbs. In Exp.2, participants (n = 19) imagined hand flexion or extension, while corticospinal excitability was measured via transcranial magnetic stimulation. Corticospinal excitability was modulated by action verbs subliminally presented prior to imagery. Specifically, the typical increase observed during imagery was suppressed after presentation of incongruent action verbs. This mutual influence of action language and motor imagery, both at behavioral and neurophysiological levels, suggests overlapping motor representations. |
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spelling | pubmed-99327082023-02-17 Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations W, Dupont C, Papaxanthis C, Madden-Lombardi F, Lebon Heliyon Research Article While action language and motor imagery both engage the motor system, determining whether these two processes indeed share the same motor representations would contribute to better understanding their underlying mechanisms. We conducted two experiments probing the mutual influence of these two processes. In Exp.1, hand-action verbs were presented subliminally, and participants (n = 36) selected the verb they thought they perceived from two alternatives. When congruent actions were imagined prior to this task, accuracy significantly increased, i.e. participants were better able to “see” the subliminal verbs. In Exp.2, participants (n = 19) imagined hand flexion or extension, while corticospinal excitability was measured via transcranial magnetic stimulation. Corticospinal excitability was modulated by action verbs subliminally presented prior to imagery. Specifically, the typical increase observed during imagery was suppressed after presentation of incongruent action verbs. This mutual influence of action language and motor imagery, both at behavioral and neurophysiological levels, suggests overlapping motor representations. Elsevier 2023-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9932708/ /pubmed/36816230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13426 Text en © 2023 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Research Article W, Dupont C, Papaxanthis C, Madden-Lombardi F, Lebon Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations |
title | Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations |
title_full | Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations |
title_fullStr | Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations |
title_full_unstemmed | Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations |
title_short | Imagining and reading actions: Towards similar motor representations |
title_sort | imagining and reading actions: towards similar motor representations |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9932708/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36816230 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13426 |
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