http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8342 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>The motor features of action verbs: fMRI evidence using picture naming.</b></p> <p>Brain Lang. 2018 Mar 01;179:22-32</p> <p>Authors: Zhang Y, Wang K, Yue C, Mo N, Wu D, Wen X, Qiu J</p> <p>Abstract<br/> The processing disadvantage of verbs compared to nouns and the greater vulnerability of verbs in brain damage have been ascribed to greater processing demands of morpho-syntactical or/and semantic properties for verbs, or/and visual complexity in picture-naming studies. Using picture naming, the current functional magnetic resonance imaging study examined the neural substrates underlying the semantic distinction between nouns and verbs. Under forced (externally-elicited) or free (internally-motivated) conditions, participants named a set of pictorial stimuli as objects or actions performed on/with the objects in Chinese. Use of a language with impoverished inflectional morphology (i.e., Chinese) and the same set of pictures for naming objects and actions allows for the control of both morpho-syntactical and visual confounds. The results revealed specific neural correlates for action verbs in the cortical-subcortical motor system, irrespective of the naming conditions. Plausible accounts for the motor aspects of action-verb processing were interpreted basically on a semantic basis.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 29501856 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:27:31 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator