Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language
Do embodied semantic systems play different roles depending on when and how well a given language was learned? Emergent evidence suggests that this is the case for isolated, decontextualized stimuli, but no study has addressed the issue considering naturalistic narratives. Seeking to bridge this gap...
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| author | Agustina Birba David Beltrán Miguel Martorell Caro Piergiorgio Trevisan Boris Kogan Lucas Sedeño Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo M. García |
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| description | Do embodied semantic systems play different roles depending on when and how well a given language was learned? Emergent evidence suggests that this is the case for isolated, decontextualized stimuli, but no study has addressed the issue considering naturalistic narratives. Seeking to bridge this gap, we assessed motor-system dynamics in 26 Spanish-English bilinguals as they engaged in free, unconstrained reading of naturalistic action texts (ATs, highlighting the characters’ movements) and neutral texts (NTs, featuring low motility) in their first and second language (L1, L2). To explore functional connectivity spread over each reading session, we recorded ongoing high-density electroencephalographic signals and subjected them to functional connectivity analysis via a spatial clustering approach. Results showed that, in L1, AT (relative to NT) reading involved increased connectivity between left and right central electrodes consistently implicated in action-related processes, as well as distinct source-level modulations in motor regions. In L2, despite null group-level effects, enhanced motor-related connectivity during AT reading correlated positively with L2 proficiency and negatively with age of L2 learning. Taken together, these findings suggest that action simulations during unconstrained narrative reading involve neural couplings between motor-sensitive mechanisms, in proportion to how consolidated a language is. More generally, such evidence addresses recent calls to test the ecological validity of motor-resonance effects while offering new insights on their relation with experiential variables. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d18e896168af4e7da3860921175c994c2022-12-21T22:30:41ZengElsevierNeuroImage1095-95722020-08-01216116820Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second languageAgustina Birba0David Beltrán1Miguel Martorell Caro2Piergiorgio Trevisan3Boris Kogan4Lucas Sedeño5Agustín Ibáñez6Adolfo M. García7Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, C1425FQB, ArgentinaInstituto Universitario de Neurociencia (IUNE), Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, 3820, SpainUniversidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, C1425FQB, ArgentinaUniversity of Trieste, ItalyInstitute of Basic and Applied Psychology and Technology (IPSIBAT), National University of Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Agency of Scientific and Technological Promotion (ANPCyT), Buenos Aires, ArgentinaNational Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, C1425FQB, ArgentinaUniversidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, C1425FQB, Argentina; Centre of Excellence in Cognition and Its Disorders, Australian Research Council (ARC), Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia; Center for Social and Cognitive Neuroscience (CSCN), School of Psychology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago de Chile, 7550344, Chile; Universidad Autónoma del Caribe, Barranquilla, 08002, ColombiaUniversidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina; National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires, C1425FQB, Argentina; Faculty of Education, National University of Cuyo, Mendoza, M5502JMA, Argentina; Departamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile; Corresponding author. Universidad de San Andrés and CONICET, Vito Dumas 284, B1644BID Victoria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Do embodied semantic systems play different roles depending on when and how well a given language was learned? Emergent evidence suggests that this is the case for isolated, decontextualized stimuli, but no study has addressed the issue considering naturalistic narratives. Seeking to bridge this gap, we assessed motor-system dynamics in 26 Spanish-English bilinguals as they engaged in free, unconstrained reading of naturalistic action texts (ATs, highlighting the characters’ movements) and neutral texts (NTs, featuring low motility) in their first and second language (L1, L2). To explore functional connectivity spread over each reading session, we recorded ongoing high-density electroencephalographic signals and subjected them to functional connectivity analysis via a spatial clustering approach. Results showed that, in L1, AT (relative to NT) reading involved increased connectivity between left and right central electrodes consistently implicated in action-related processes, as well as distinct source-level modulations in motor regions. In L2, despite null group-level effects, enhanced motor-related connectivity during AT reading correlated positively with L2 proficiency and negatively with age of L2 learning. Taken together, these findings suggest that action simulations during unconstrained narrative reading involve neural couplings between motor-sensitive mechanisms, in proportion to how consolidated a language is. More generally, such evidence addresses recent calls to test the ecological validity of motor-resonance effects while offering new insights on their relation with experiential variables.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920303074Embodied cognitionAction semanticsNaturalistic text readingBilingualismEEG functional Connectivity |
| spellingShingle | Agustina Birba David Beltrán Miguel Martorell Caro Piergiorgio Trevisan Boris Kogan Lucas Sedeño Agustín Ibáñez Adolfo M. García Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language NeuroImage Embodied cognition Action semantics Naturalistic text reading Bilingualism EEG functional Connectivity |
| title | Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language |
| title_full | Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language |
| title_fullStr | Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language |
| title_full_unstemmed | Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language |
| title_short | Motor-system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language |
| title_sort | motor system dynamics during naturalistic reading of action narratives in first and second language |
| topic | Embodied cognition Action semantics Naturalistic text reading Bilingualism EEG functional Connectivity |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920303074 |
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