TY  - JOUR
AU  - Papitto, Giorgio
AU  - Lugli, Luisa
AU  - Borghi, Anna M.
AU  - Pellicano, Antonello
AU  - Binkofski, Ferdinand
TI  - Embodied negation and levels of concreteness: A TMS study on German and Italian language processing
JO  - Brain research
VL  - 1767
SN  - 0006-8993
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - FZJ-2021-03947
SP  - 147523 -
PY  - 2021
AB  - According to the embodied cognition perspective, linguistic negation may block the motor simulations induced by language processing. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied to the left primary motor cortex (hand area) of monolingual Italian and German healthy participants during a rapid serial visual presentation of sentences from their own language. In these languages, the negative particle is located at the beginning and at the end of the sentence, respectively. The study investigated whether the interruption of the motor simulation processes, accounted for by reduced motor evoked potentials (MEPs), takes place similarly in two languages differing on the position of the negative marker. Different levels of sentence concreteness were also manipulated to investigate if negation exerts generalized effects or if it is affected by the semantic features of the sentence. Our findings indicate that negation acts as a block on motor representations, but independently from the language and words concreteness level.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:34010607
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000687238300007
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.brainres.2021.147523
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/901973
ER  -