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dc.contributor.authorBach, Pen
dc.contributor.authorGriffiths, Den
dc.contributor.authorWeigelt, Men
dc.contributor.authorTipper, SPen
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-24T12:19:55Z
dc.date.available2012-05-24T12:19:55Z
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1015
dc.description.abstract

Across cultures, speakers produce iconic gestures, which add - through the movement of the speakers' hands - a pictorial dimension to the speakers' message. These gestures capture not only the motor content but also the visuospatial content of the message. Here, we provide first evidence for a direct link between the representation of perceptual information and the motor system that can account for these observations. Across four experiments, participants' hand movements captured both shapes that were directly perceived, and shapes that were only implicitly activated by unrelated semantic judgments of object words. These results were obtained even though the objects were not associated with any motor behaviors that would match the gestures the participants had to produce. Moreover, implied shape affected not only gesture selection processes but also their actual execution - as measured by the shape of hand motion through space - revealing intimate links between implied shape representation and motor output. The results are discussed in terms of ideomotor theories of action and perception, and provide one avenue for explaining the ubiquitous phenomenon of iconic gestures.

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dc.format.extent214 - ?en
dc.languageengen
dc.language.isoengen
dc.subjectaffordancesen
dc.subjectgestureen
dc.subjectideomotor theoriesen
dc.subjectlanguageen
dc.subjectobject shapeen
dc.subjectstimulus–response compatibilityen
dc.titleGesturing Meaning: Non-action Words Activate the Motor System.en
dc.typeJournal Article
plymouth.author-urlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21120138en
plymouth.volume4en
plymouth.publication-statusPublished onlineen
plymouth.journalFront Hum Neuroscien
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fnhum.2010.00214en
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/REF 2021 Researchers by UoA/UoA04 Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Research Groups
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB)
plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Research Groups/Centre for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB)/Brain
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerlanden
dcterms.dateAccepted2010-10-14en
dc.identifier.eissn1662-5161en
dc.rights.embargoperiodNot knownen
rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.3389/fnhum.2010.00214en
rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttp://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserveden
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2010en
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen


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