Sentence examples for motor system activation from inspiring English sources

Motor system activation to emotion words was mainly comprised within the regions also activated by action words typically used to speak about overt actions.

Ward, N. S. et al. Motor system activation after subcortical stroke depends on corticospinal system integrity.

Previous work has already demonstrated that action experience influences motor system activation during action observation in infancy (van Elk, van Schie, Hunnius, Vesper & Bekkering, 2008).

Our results demonstrate substantial left-hemispheric motor system activation by hand, arm, and emotion words (though not by animal words); they also suggest that there are local differences in the word-specific activation patterns in this region.

When language is being comprehended the motor system activation even reveals information about action-related meaning of the language material processes (Pulvermüller, 2005; Shtyrov, Hauk, & Pulvermüller, 2004; Tettamanti et al., 2005).

According to this view, perceptual motor couplings are present at birth and although observed actions need to be a part of the infant's motor repertoire to elicit motor system activation, experience merely shapes or refines existing perceptual motor couplings, but is not considered necessary for creating them (Lepage & Théoret, 2007; Simpson, Murray, Paukner & Ferrari, 2014).

Over and above such unspecific or phonologically-related language-action linkage, semantic somatotopy shows that motor system activations are modulated by the semantic word type under investigation, as demonstrated by our comparison with the filler word group (animals) and by the differential activations revealed by our ROI analysis.

As TMS work shows influences of motor systems activation on lexical and phonological processing (Meister, Wilson, Deblieck, Wu, & Iacoboni, 2007; Pulvermüller, Hauk, Nikulin, & Ilmoniemi, 2005), it appears that, apart from perceptual "bottom up" activation, "top down" activation from the semantic and phonological action networks are effective in language understanding.

Similar to motor systems activations, these hemodynamic changes in limbic structures were largely constant over different stimulus selections; especially, they were clearly present for abstract emotion words.

Skilled kanji writers, for example, demonstrate motor-system activation in areas associated with writing these characters, even without any intention to write (Kato et al., 1999).

Since it resides near the motor system, MNS activation may explain the resolution of immobility, often accompanied by pain, in the phantom limb.