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Body-specific representations of action word meanings in right and left handers
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- Department of Psychology, Stanford University
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- Received 15 November 2007 10:23 UTC; Posted 15 November 2007
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If understanding action words involves mentally simulating our own actions, then the neurocognitive representation of word meanings must differ for people with different kinds of bodies, who perform actions in systematically different ways. In a test of the Body-Specificity Hypothesis, right- and left-handers were compared on two motor-meaning congruity tasks. Double dissociations in both action execution and recognition memory results showed that right and left handers form body-specific representations of words for manual actions.
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Casasanto, Daniel. Body-specific representations of action word meanings in right and left handers. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2007.1321.1> (2007)
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Daniel Casasanto on 09 July 2008 01:59 UTC
NOTE: This manuscript is undergoing substantial revisions. Please do not quote or cite this draft. For more information, please contact the author, Dr. Daniel Casasanto (casasanto@alum.mit.edu).