Flexibility in embodied language understanding

RM Willems, D Casasanto - Frontiers in psychology, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Do people use sensori-motor cortices to understand language? Here we review
neurocognitive studies of language comprehension in healthy adults and evaluate their …

The neural career of sensory-motor metaphors

RH Desai, JR Binder, LL Conant, QR Mano… - Journal of cognitive …, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
The role of sensory-motor systems in conceptual understanding has been controversial. It
has been proposed that many abstract concepts are understood metaphorically through …

Neuroplasticity of semantic representations for musical instruments in professional musicians

K Hoenig, C Müller, B Herrnberger, EJ Sim, M Spitzer… - NeuroImage, 2011 - Elsevier
Professional musicians constitute a model par excellence for understanding experience-
dependent plasticity in the human brain, particularly in the auditory domain. Their intensive …

The lateralization of motor cortex activation to action-words

O Hauk, F Pulvermüller - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2011 - frontiersin.org
What determines the laterality of activation in motor cortex for words whose meaning is
related to bodily actions? It has been suggested that the neuronal representation of the …

Neural perspectives on'interactional expertise'

T Schilhab - Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
How flexible is language? To what extent does language'absorb'(neutralize) individual
differences, for example physical interaction, in knowledge acquisition within a domain …

Expériences et construction d'invariants: connaissances opérationnelles, schèmes d'action et «qualités»

J Rogalski - Travail et apprentissages, 2011 - cairn.info
On présente un cadre d'ensemble pour analyser l'impact de l'expérience sur les
compétences. La référence théorique d'ensemble est celle d'une théorie de l'activité du …

Dinner with Wilma: on the relation between (inter) subjectivity, memory and emotion management in migrant-in-the-family interactions

H Engfer - 2011 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
This thesis reports on the findings of a heuristic study on participants' communicative means
of co-constructing (inter) subjective remembering in interactions with an Alzheimer's patient …