Up right, not right up: Primacy of verticality in both language and movement

When describing motion along both the horizontal and vertical axes, languages from different families express the elements encoding verticality before those coding for horizontality (e.g., going up right instead of right up). In light of the motor grounding of language, the present study investigate...

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Main Authors: Véronique Boulenger, Livio Finos, Eric Koun, Roméo Salemme, Clément Desoche, Alice C. Roy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2022.981330/full