From Affordances to Abstract Words: The Flexibility of Sensorimotor Grounding

被引:28
作者
Mazzuca, Claudia [1 ,2 ]
Fini, Chiara [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Michalland, Arthur Henri [1 ,2 ,4 ]
Falcinelli, Ilenia [1 ,2 ]
Da Rold, Federico [1 ,2 ]
Tummolini, Luca [1 ,2 ,5 ]
Borghi, Anna M. [1 ,2 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Sapienza Univ Rome, Body Act Language Lab BALLAB, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[2] ISTC CNR, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[3] IRCCS Fdn Santa Lucia, I-00179 Rome, Italy
[4] Univ Paul Valery Montpellier, Dept Psychol, EPSYLON EA 4556, F-34199 Montpellier, France
[5] Natl Res Council CNR, Inst Cognit Sci & Technol, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[6] Sapienza Univ Rome, Dept Dynam & Clin Psychol & Hlth Studies, I-00185 Rome, Italy
基金
欧盟地平线“2020”;
关键词
body; action; abstract concepts; metacognition; sociality; CONTEXTUAL MODULATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; BODY SHAPE; LANGUAGE; BRAIN; REPRESENTATION; HAND; CATEGORIES; OTHERS; DISCRIMINATION;
D O I
10.3390/brainsci11101304
中图分类号
Q189 [神经科学];
学科分类号
071006 ;
摘要
The sensorimotor system plays a critical role in several cognitive processes. Here, we review recent studies documenting this interplay at different levels. First, we concentrate on studies that have shown how the sensorimotor system is flexibly involved in interactions with objects. We report evidence demonstrating how social context and situations influence affordance activation, and then focus on tactile and kinesthetic components in body-object interactions. Then, we turn to word use, and review studies that have shown that not only concrete words, but also abstract words are grounded in the sensorimotor system. We report evidence that abstract concepts activate the mouth effector more than concrete concepts, and discuss this effect in light of studies on adults, children, and infants. Finally, we pinpoint possible sensorimotor mechanisms at play in the acquisition and use of abstract concepts. Overall, we show that the involvement of the sensorimotor system is flexibly modulated by context, and that its role can be integrated and flanked by that of other systems such as the linguistic system. We suggest that to unravel the role of the sensorimotor system in cognition, future research should fully explore the complexity of this intricate, and sometimes slippery, relation.
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