NDLI: Interaction Between Words and Symbolic Gestures as Revealed By N400

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Author	Fabbri Destro, Maddalena Avanzini, Pietro Stefani, Elisa Incenti, Alessandro Campi, Cristina Gentilucci, Maurizio
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	What happens if you see a person pronouncing the word “go” after having gestured “stop”? Differently from iconic gestures, that must necessarily be accompanied by verbal language in order to be unambiguously understood, symbolic gestures are so conventionalized that they can be effortlessly understood in the absence of speech. Previous studies proposed that gesture and speech belong to a unique communication system. From an electrophysiological perspective the N400 modulation was considered the main variable indexing the interplay between two stimuli. However, while many studies tested this effect between iconic gestures and speech, little is known about the capability of an emblem to modulate the neural response to subsequently presented words. Using high-density EEG, the present study aimed at evaluating the presence of an N400 effect and its spatiotemporal dynamics, in terms of cortical activations, when emblems primed the observation of words. Participants were presented with symbolic gestures followed by a semantically congruent or incongruent verb. A N400 modulation was detected, showing larger negativity when gesture and words were incongruent. The source localization during N400 time window evidenced the activation of different portions of temporal cortex according to the gesture and word congruence. Our data provide further evidence of how the observation of an emblem influences verbal language perception, and of how this interplay is mainly instanced by different portions of the temporal cortex.
Starting Page	591
Ending Page	605
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	08960267
Journal	Brain Topography
Volume Number	28
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15736792
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2014-08-15
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Words Symbolic gestures High density EEG N400 potential Medial temporal cortex Anterior temporal pole Neurosciences Psychiatry Neurology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Neurology Anatomy Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging Neurology (clinical) Radiological and Ultrasound Technology

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