Painful semantic context modulates the relationship between action words and biological movement perception |
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Authors: | Christel Bidet-Ildei Manuel Gimenes Lucette Toussaint Sophie-Anne Beauprez Arnaud Badets |
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Institution: | 1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'apprentissage (UMR 7295), Université de Poitiers, Université Fran?ois Rabelais de Tours, Poitiers, Francechristel.bidet@univ-poitiers.fr;3. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'apprentissage (UMR 7295), Université de Poitiers, Université Fran?ois Rabelais de Tours, Poitiers, France;4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Bordeaux, Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives et Intégratives d’Aquitaine (UMR 5287), Bordeaux, France |
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Abstract: | Studies have revealed a close relationship between action–word processing and the detection of point-light biological movements and that this effect can be modulated by the context of action-verb presentation. The goal of the present study was to further examine the extent to which motor representation activation plays a role in this relationship by testing the influence of painless/painful sentence understanding during a listening task. Participants judged the presence or absence of a point-light biological movement that was embedded in a scrambled mask after a congruent or incongruent action sentence was presented. The sentences varied according to the context of action-verb presentation (painful, painless). Perceptual judgments of human movements improved after a prior presentation of a congruent action sentence but only in the painless context. Thus, our findings show that pain included in a semantic context of sentence presentation can preclude the relationship between action–word understanding and point-light biological movement judgments. |
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Keywords: | Biological motion action sentence linguistic context perceived pain |
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