Embodied Language meets Virtual Reality: The first steps towards the study of the relationships between language and motor system in virtual environments - Softcover

Repetto, Claudia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3659401056 ISBN 13: 9783659401053

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

This book aims at discussing the role of action and motor system in language processing. The link between language and action is not a totally new issue, but the interest towards it has been renewed by the discovery of the mirror neuron system. Recently, neuroscience studies demonstrated that cortical areas usually required to plan and perform an action, also play a role during linguistic processes. But beside the traditional methodics, such as transcranic magnetic stimulation (TMS) and functional magnetic resonance (fMRI), Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly becoming a useful tool to address neuroscience issues. VR technology allows people to enter a computer-generated environment, feeling like being a part of this world and interacting with it almost like in the real world. Thanks to these “embodied features”, VR seems to have interesting potentialities in the study of the interaction between action and language. In the researches described, common (rTMS) and less common (VR) tools are used to evaluate the role of the motor system during comprehension and learning of action verbs.

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About the Author

Claudia Repetto, after working as a researcher in neuropsychology, in 2013 obtained a PhD degree in Psychology at the Catholic University of Sacred Heart of Milan. Her research interests include memory, language and new technologies; recently she focused on the study of language from the perspective proposed by the Embodied Cognition.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3659401056
• ISBN 13: 9783659401053
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140