http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=8347 <table border="0" width="100%"><tr><td align="left"/></tr></table> <p><b>The mental simulation of state/psychological verbs in the adolescent brain: An fMRI study.</b></p> <p>Brain Cogn. 2018 Mar 02;123:34-46</p> <p>Authors: Tomasino B, Nobile M, Re M, Bellina M, Garzitto M, Arrigoni F, Molteni M, Fabbro F, Brambilla P</p> <p>Abstract<br/> This fMRI study investigated mental simulation of state/psychological and action verbs during adolescence. Sixteen healthy subjects silently read verbs describing a motor scene or not (STIMULUS: motor, state/psychological verbs) and they were explicitly asked to imagine the situation or they performed letter detection preventing them from using simulation (TASK: imagery vs. letter detection). A significant task by stimuli interaction showed that imagery of state/psychological verbs, as compared to action stimuli (controlled by the letter detection) selectively increased activation in the right supramarginal gyrus/rolandic operculum and in the right insula, and decreased activation in the right intraparietal sulcus. We compared these data to those from a group of older participants (Tomasino et al. 2014a). Activation in the left supramarginal gyrus decreased for the latter group (as compared to the present group) for imagery of state/psychological verbs. By contrast, activation in the right superior frontal gyrus decreased for the former group (as compared to the older group) for imagery of state/psychological verbs.<br/> </p><p>PMID: 29505944 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]</p> en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:27:32 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator