TY - JOUR
T1 - Negation markers inhibit motor routines during typing of manual action verbs
AU - García-Marco, Enrique
AU - Morera, Yurena
AU - Beltrán, David
AU - de Vega, Manuel
AU - Herrera, Eduar
AU - Sedeño, Lucas
AU - Ibáñez, Agustín
AU - García, Adolfo M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - We explored whether negation markers recruit inhibitory mechanisms during keyboard-based action-verb typing. In each trial, participants read two sentences: the first featured a context (There is a contract) and the second ended with a relevant verb which had to be immediately typed. Crucially, the verb could describe manual actions, non-manual actions or non-motor processes, with either affirmative (You do sign it) or negative (You don't sign it) polarity. We assessed the impact of verb type and polarity on two typing dimensions: motor programming (lapse between target onset and first keystroke) and motor execution (lapse between first and last keystroke). Negation yielded no effect on motor planning, but it selectively delayed typing execution for manual-action verbs, irrespective of the subjects’ typing skills. This suggests that processing negations during comprehension of manual-action sentences recruits inhibitory mechanisms acting on same-effector movements. Our novel finding extends embodied models of language and effector-specific motor-language integration.
AB - We explored whether negation markers recruit inhibitory mechanisms during keyboard-based action-verb typing. In each trial, participants read two sentences: the first featured a context (There is a contract) and the second ended with a relevant verb which had to be immediately typed. Crucially, the verb could describe manual actions, non-manual actions or non-motor processes, with either affirmative (You do sign it) or negative (You don't sign it) polarity. We assessed the impact of verb type and polarity on two typing dimensions: motor programming (lapse between target onset and first keystroke) and motor execution (lapse between first and last keystroke). Negation yielded no effect on motor planning, but it selectively delayed typing execution for manual-action verbs, irrespective of the subjects’ typing skills. This suggests that processing negations during comprehension of manual-action sentences recruits inhibitory mechanisms acting on same-effector movements. Our novel finding extends embodied models of language and effector-specific motor-language integration.
KW - Embodied cognition
KW - Inhibitory processes
KW - Linguistic negation
KW - Typing
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85055744239&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.020
DO - 10.1016/j.cognition.2018.10.020
M3 - Article
C2 - 30390568
AN - SCOPUS:85055744239
SN - 0010-0277
VL - 182
SP - 286
EP - 293
JO - Cognition
JF - Cognition
ER -