Embodied language and perspective taking in light of movement disorders

Publication date: Available online 9 December 2017
Source:Cortex
Author(s): Claudia Gianelli
Growing evidence supports the idea of a strict interplay between linguistic and motor systems, with an impact on participant's neurophysiological and motor responses. Despite the increasing evidence, the translation of these results into the clinical domain - especially that of movement disorders - is still limited. One possible source of limitation is constituted by the contextual and task dependency of embodied language effects, for instance when it comes to evaluating if different linguistic perspectives modulate the processing of action language. By reviewing and discussing the existing literature, I outline how a fruitful application of action-language paradigms to movement disorders is not hindered but indeed can take advantage of these contextual dependencies and of fine-grained motor measures.



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