The researchers decided to incorporate this in their interface touching an object onscreen with a free hand indicates that the actions performed with the pen relate to that object.
In the novel + hint sentence production test, participants were required to produce sentences to actions performed with the novel object nouns.
Our results provide good (albeit not complete) support for the hypothesis that participants imagining actions performed with their dominant hand would exhibit higher empathy compared to those imagining actions performed with their non-dominant hand.
All verbs denoted actions performed with the hand or arm (e.g., write, throw) while nouns referred to imaginable concrete entities without specific motor associations (e.g., mill, cliff) and were used as control words.
In fact, the effect of lateral correspondence was due exclusively to women, because female participants who imagined actions performed with their dominant hand scored higher on the BEES than all other groups, which did not differ between each other.
Naming and Request communicative actions performed with the same linguistic materials demonstrated significantly different spatio-temporal patterns of brain activation.
The motor system is lesioned, for example the arm movements become impaired; thus actions performed with that arm become less accurate.
A number of brain areas contributed to recollection generally, whether this involved retrieving the actions performed with real objects or the location from which the objects were drawn.
fMRI studies have demonstrated that the observation of actions performed with different effectors also results in somatotopically-organised activation of the motor cortex (e.g. Buccino et al., 2001, Hauk et al., 2004, Wheaton et al., 2004).
