Time-Course of Motor Involvement in Literal and Metaphoric Action Sentence Processing: A TMS Study

There is evidence that the motor cortex is involved in reading sentences containing an action verb (“The spike was hammered into the ground”) as well as metaphoric sentences (“The army was hammered in the battle”). Verbs such as ‘hammered’ may be homonyms, with separate meanings belonging to the lit...

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Main Authors: Megan Reilly, Olivia Howerton, Rutvik H. Desai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00371/full