Response: Commentary: Viewing photos and reading nouns of natural graspable objects similarly modulate motor responses.

Giovanni Buccino,Barbara F M Marino

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2015.00524

Abstract

Response: Commentary: Viewing photos and reading nouns of natural graspable objects similarly modulate motor responses.

Highlights

At 150 ms after stimulus presentation, participants had to respond when the stimulus referred to a real object with their right or left index finger, and refrain from responding when a scrambled image or a pseudoword was presented
Participants’ responses related to photos or nouns of graspable objects were slower than those related to non-graspable ones, independent of the responding hand. These findings support the notion that the semantic processing of photos and written nouns referring to graspable objects, is due to common neural substrates, crucially involving the motor system
They forward that, to solve the requested semantic task, participants relied on the motor representations of potential hand interactions with the object depicted in the photo or expressed by the verbal label

Summary

Introduction

“Commentary: Viewing photos and reading nouns of natural graspable objects modulate motor responses” by Makris, S. Response: Commentary: Viewing photos and reading nouns of natural graspable objects modulate motor responses.

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