TY - JOUR A1 - Malyutina, Svetlana A1 - Dragoy, Olga V. A1 - Ivanova, Maria A1 - Laurinavichyute, Anna A1 - Petrushevsky, Alexey A1 - Meindl, Thomas A1 - Pöppel, Ernst A1 - Gutyrchik, Evgeny T1 - Fishing is not wrestling: Neural underpinnings of the verb instrumentality effect JF - Journal of neurolinguistics : an international journal for the study of brain function in language behavior and experience N2 - Previous clinical research has shown a positive effect of instrumentality on verb retrieval in individuals with aphasia. Performance on instrumental verbs incorporating an obligatory tool into their conceptual representation (e.g., to cut) is more accurate compared to non instrumental verbs (e.g., to tear), possibly due to more specific conceptual representations of instrumental verbs. Seeking the neural correlates of the differences between instrumental and non-instrumental verbs, we conducted an fMRI study with 16 German speakers who performed a verb-object matching task with instrumental and non instrumental verbs. We found that an extensive neural network. including but not limited to frontal and temporal language-related areas was more involved in the semantic processing of non-instrumental compared to instrumental verbs. We argue that this reflects a greater load associated with the processing of less semantically structured/restricted representations of non-instrumental verbs. The unavailability of additional neural resources needed for the processing of non-instrumental verbs in individuals with aphasia may lead to better behavioral performance on instrumental than non instrumental verbs. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. KW - Verbs KW - Action verbs KW - Verb retrieval KW - Instrumentality KW - Semantic complexity KW - Neurocognitive load KW - Functional magnetic resonance imaging Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneuroling.2016.03.002 SN - 0911-6044 VL - 40 SP - 37 EP - 54 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Patzwald, Christiane A1 - Elsner, Birgit T1 - Do as I say - or as I do?! BT - How 18-and 24-month-olds integrate words and actions to infer intentions in situations of match or mismatch JF - Infant behavior & development : an international and interdisciplinary journal N2 - Infants use behavioral and verbal cues to infer another person’s action intention. However, it is still unclear how infants integrate these often co-occurring cues depending on the cues’ coherence (i.e., the degree to which the cues provide coherent information about another’s intention). This study investigated how 18- and 24-month-olds’ (N = 88 per age group) action selection was influenced by varying the coherence of a model’s verbal and behavioral cues. Using a between-subjects design, infants received six trials with different stimulus objects. In the conditions Congruent, Incongruent, and Failed-attempt, the model uttered a telic verb particle that was followed by a matching or contradicting goal-directed action demonstration, or by a non goal-directed slipping motion, respectively. In the condition Pseudo-word, a nonsense word was combined with a goal-directed action demonstration. Infants’ action selection indicated an adherence to the verbal cue in Congruent, Incongruent, and Failed-attempt, and this was stronger in 24- than 18-month-olds. Additionally, in Incongruent and Failed-attempt, patterns of cue integration across the six trials varied in the two age groups. Regarding the behavioral cue, infants in Congruent and Pseudo-word preferentially followed this cue in both age groups, which also suggested a rather unspecific effect of the verbal cue in Congruent. Relatively longer first action-latencies in Incongruent and Failed-attempt implied that these types of coherence elicited higher cognitive demands than in Congruent and Pseudo-word. Results are discussed in light of infants’ flexibility in using social cues, depending on the cue’s coherence and on age-related social-cognitive differences. KW - Social cues KW - Social learning KW - Infancy KW - Action KW - Verbs KW - Imitation Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2019.03.004 SN - 0163-6383 SN - 1879-0453 VL - 55 SP - 46 EP - 57 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER -