Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of Motor Imagery (MI) training on language comprehension. In line with literature suggesting an intimate relationship between the language and the motor system, we proposed that a MI-training could improve language comprehension by facilitating...
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| author | Camille Bonnet Mariam Bayram Samuel El Bouzaïdi Tiali Florent Lebon Sylvain Harquel Richard Palluel-Germain Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti |
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| description | The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of Motor Imagery (MI) training on language comprehension. In line with literature suggesting an intimate relationship between the language and the motor system, we proposed that a MI-training could improve language comprehension by facilitating lexico-semantic access. In two experiments, participants were assigned to a kinesthetic motor-imagery training (KMI) group, in which they had to imagine making upper-limb movements, or to a static visual imagery training (SVI) group, in which they had to mentally visualize pictures of landscapes. Differential impacts of both training protocols on two different language comprehension tasks (i.e., semantic categorization and sentence-picture matching task) were investigated. Experiment 1 showed that KMI training can induce better performance (shorter reaction times) than SVI training for the two language comprehension tasks, thus suggesting that a KMI-based motor activation can facilitate lexico-semantic access after only one training session. Experiment 2 aimed at replicating these results using a pre/post-training language assessment and a longer training period (four training sessions spread over four days). Although the improvement magnitude between pre- and post-training sessions was greater in the KMI group than in the SVI one on the semantic categorization task, the sentence-picture matching task tended to provide an opposite pattern of results. Overall, this series of experiments highlights for the first time that motor imagery can contribute to the improvement of lexical-semantic processing and could open new avenues on rehabilitation methods for language deficits. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b142740f738340eeac9e90f12439af6f2022-12-22T03:00:42ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01176e027035210.1371/journal.pone.0270352Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access.Camille BonnetMariam BayramSamuel El Bouzaïdi TialiFlorent LebonSylvain HarquelRichard Palluel-GermainMarcela Perrone-BertolottiThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of Motor Imagery (MI) training on language comprehension. In line with literature suggesting an intimate relationship between the language and the motor system, we proposed that a MI-training could improve language comprehension by facilitating lexico-semantic access. In two experiments, participants were assigned to a kinesthetic motor-imagery training (KMI) group, in which they had to imagine making upper-limb movements, or to a static visual imagery training (SVI) group, in which they had to mentally visualize pictures of landscapes. Differential impacts of both training protocols on two different language comprehension tasks (i.e., semantic categorization and sentence-picture matching task) were investigated. Experiment 1 showed that KMI training can induce better performance (shorter reaction times) than SVI training for the two language comprehension tasks, thus suggesting that a KMI-based motor activation can facilitate lexico-semantic access after only one training session. Experiment 2 aimed at replicating these results using a pre/post-training language assessment and a longer training period (four training sessions spread over four days). Although the improvement magnitude between pre- and post-training sessions was greater in the KMI group than in the SVI one on the semantic categorization task, the sentence-picture matching task tended to provide an opposite pattern of results. Overall, this series of experiments highlights for the first time that motor imagery can contribute to the improvement of lexical-semantic processing and could open new avenues on rehabilitation methods for language deficits.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270352 |
| spellingShingle | Camille Bonnet Mariam Bayram Samuel El Bouzaïdi Tiali Florent Lebon Sylvain Harquel Richard Palluel-Germain Marcela Perrone-Bertolotti Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access. PLoS ONE |
| title | Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access. |
| title_full | Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access. |
| title_fullStr | Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access. |
| title_short | Kinesthetic motor-imagery training improves performance on lexical-semantic access. |
| title_sort | kinesthetic motor imagery training improves performance on lexical semantic access |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270352 |
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