@article{b60552bf111c4ce5acdd829e7e76b50b,
title = "Congruent Embodied Representations for Visually Presented Actions and Linguistic Phrases Describing Actions",
abstract = "The thesis of embodied semantics holds that conceptual representations accessed during linguistic processing are, in part, equivalent to the sensory-motor representations required for the enactment of the concepts described [1-6]. Here, using fMRI, we tested the hypothesis that areas in human premotor cortex that respond both to the execution and observation of actions-mirror neuron areas [7-18]-are key neural structures in these processes. Participants observed actions and read phrases relating to foot, hand, or mouth actions. In the premotor cortex of the left hemisphere, a clear congruence was found between effector-specific activations of visually presented actions and of actions described by literal phrases. These results suggest a key role of mirror neuron areas in the re-enactment of sensory-motor representations during conceptual processing of actions invoked by linguistic stimuli.",
keywords = "SYSNEURO",
author = "Lisa Aziz-Zadeh and Wilson, {Stephen M.} and Giacomo Rizzolatti and Marco Iacoboni",
note = "Funding Information: We thank Istvan Molnar-Szakacs for his assistance in making stimuli, and Richard Ivry, Jerome Feldman, and Srini Naranayan for helpful comments. For generous support, we thank the Brain Mapping Medical Research Organization, Brain Mapping Support Foundation, Pierson-Lovelace Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, William M. and Linda R. Dietel Philanthropic Fund at the Northern Piedmont Community Foundation, Tamkin Foundation, Jennifer Jones-Simon Foundation, Capital Group Companies Charitable Foundation, Robson Family, and Northstar Fund. The project described was supported by MIUR, grant Cofin to G.R., and FIRB, RBNE018ET9, grants from the National Science Foundation (REC0107077), National Institute of Mental Health (MH63680), and grant numbers RR12169, RR13642, and RR00865 from the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NCR or NIH. ",
year = "2006",
month = sep,
day = "19",
doi = "10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.060",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "16",
pages = "1818--1823",
journal = "Current Biology",
issn = "0960-9822",
publisher = "Cell Press",
number = "18",
}