Topic: action words

Prior neuroimaging studies have shown that words associated with actions, like "grasp" and "kick," activate specific regions in the cortical motor system corresponding to the body parts involved in those actions. This activation follows the somatotopic mapping of these body parts. The variation in activation could suggest differences in how different types of symbols are processed semantically, or it might be a byproduct of activities related to imagining scenes associated with the meanings of these symbols. To address this debate, we simulated the semantic learning of realistic action words i