caa a22 4500 445351926 CHVBK 20180317142846.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00221-011-2678-z doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00221-011-2678-z Modulation of the motor system during visual and auditory language processing [Elektronische Daten] [Ludovica Labruna, Miguel Fernández-del-Olmo, Ayelet Landau, Julie Duqué, Richard Ivry] Studies of embodied cognition have demonstrated the engagement of the motor system when people process action-related words and concepts. However, research using transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to examine linguistic modulation in primary motor cortex has produced inconsistent results. Some studies report that action words produce an increase in corticospinal excitability; others, a decrease. Given the differences in methodology and modality, we re-examined this issue, comparing conditions in which participants either read or listened to the same set of action words. In separate blocks of trials, participants were presented with lists of words in the visual and auditory modality, and a TMS pulse was applied over left motor cortex, either 150 or 300ms after the word onset. Motor evoked potentials (MEPs) elicited were larger following the presentation of action words compared with control words. However, this effect was only observed when the words were presented visually; no changes in MEPs were found when the words were presented auditorily. A review of the TMS literature on action word processing reveals a similar modality effect on corticospinal excitability. We discuss different hypotheses that might account for this differential modulation of action semantics by vision and audition. Springer-Verlag, 2011 TMS nationallicence Language nationallicence Embodiment nationallicence Action nationallicence Reading nationallicence Listening nationallicence Visual nationallicence Auditory nationallicence Labruna Ludovica Health Science Department, University of Molise, Molise, Italy aut Fernández-del-Olmo Miguel Departamento de Educación Física e Deportiva, Facultade de Ciencias do Deporte e a Educación Física, INEF, Galicia, Spain aut Landau Ayelet Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Duqué Julie Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium aut Ivry Richard Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA aut Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 211/2(2011-06-01), 243-250 0014-4819 211:2<243 2011 211 221 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2678-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2678-z text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Labruna Ludovica Health Science Department, University of Molise, Molise, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Fernández-del-Olmo Miguel Departamento de Educación Física e Deportiva, Facultade de Ciencias do Deporte e a Educación Física, INEF, Galicia, Spain aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Landau Ayelet Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Duqué Julie Institute of Neuroscience, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ivry Richard Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Brain Research Springer-Verlag 211/2(2011-06-01), 243-250 0014-4819 211:2<243 2011 211 221 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer