Dorsal stream areas process action semantics
Source
Cognitive Neuroscience, 1, 1, (2010), pp. 70ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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Journal title
Cognitive Neuroscience
Volume
vol. 1
Issue
iss. 1
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 70
Page end
p. 70
Subject
Action, intention, and motor control; Behaviour Change and Well-being; DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 2: Perception, Action and ControlAbstract
Evidence from recent studies investigating the functional and neural mechanisms supporting action semantics, i.e., the knowledge of how to use objects in a functionally appropriate manner, suggests that semantic processing for action is not restricted to high-level perceptual processing in the ventral stream but is directly associated with activation in dorsal areas, i.e., the motor system, and motor performance. These findings argue for a distributed and interactive account of action semantics and against functionally independent processing in dorsal and ventral stream areas.
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