The unification of language and action: An embrained perspective

Hagoort, Peter

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The unification of language and action: An embrained perspective

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Hagoort, Peter
Neurobiology of Language Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Hagoort, P. (2009). The unification of language and action: An embrained perspective. Talk presented at European Science Foundation – EUROCORES International Workshop Motor representation and language of space. University of Lille, France. 2009-01-28.

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In my presentation I will summarize the results of a number of ERP and fMRI studies on the processing and integration of co-occurring speech and gestures/pantomimes. The ERP results indicate that the time course of integrating language and action (i.e., gesture) is very similar to that of integrating linguistic meaning into a sentence or discourse representation. Moreover, in both cases the Left Inferior Frontal cortex plays a central role in orchestrating the multimodal unification of language and action. This orchestration is partly done by modulating temporal areas that store representations activated by the input. I will discuss the parameters of this modulation.