RT Journal Article
T1 The embodied typist: Bimanual actions are modulated by words’ implied motility and number of evoked limbs
A1 Rolán González, Katia
A1 Sánchez Borges, Iván
A1 Kogan, Boris
A1 García Marco, Enrique
A1 Álvarez González, Carlos Javier
A1 Vega, Manuel de
A1 Martín García, Adolfo
AB The planning and execution of manual actions can be influenced by concomitant processing of manual action verbs. However, this phenomenon manifests in varied ways throughout the literature, ranging from facilitation to interference effects. Suggestively, stimuli across studies vary randomly in two potentially relevant variables: verb motility and effector quantity (i.e., the amount of movement and the number of hands implied by the word, respectively). Here we examine the role of these factors during keyboard typing, a strategic bimanual task validated in previous works. Forty-one participants read and typed high and low motility items from four categories: bimanual, unimanual, and non-manual action verbs, as well as minimally motoric verbs. Motor planning and execution were captured by first-letter lag (the lapse between word presentation and first keystroke) and whole-word lag (the lapse between the first and last keystroke). We found that verb motility modulated action planning and execution, both stages being delayed by high (relative to low) motility verbs. Effector quantity also influenced both stages, which were facilitated by bimanual verbs relative to unimanual verbs and non-manual verbs (this effect being confined to high motility items during action execution). Accordingly, motor-language coupling effects seem sensitive to words' implied motility and number of evoked limbs. These findings refine our understanding of how semantics influences bodily movement.
PB Public Library of Science (PLoS)
SN 1932-6203 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23298
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/23298
LA eng
NO Rolán, K., Sánchez-Borges, I., Kogan, B., García-Marco, E., Álvarez, C. J., de Vega, M., & García, A. M. (2023). The embodied typist: Bimanual actions are modulated by words’ implied motility and number of evoked limbs. In A. Tessari (Ed.), PLOS ONE (Vol. 18, Issue 8, p. e0289926). Public Library of Science (PLoS). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289926
NO A.M.G. is an Atlantic Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI) and is supported with funding from GBHI [https://www.gbhi.org/], Alzheimer’s Association [https://www.alz.org/ar/demencia-alzheimer-argentina.asp], and Alzheimer’s Society [https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/] (Alzheimer’s Association GBHI ALZ UK-22-865742); CONICET [https://www.conicet.gov.ar/]; ANID [https://www.anid.cl/], FONDECYT [https://www.conicyt.cl/fondecyt/] Regular [1210176]; Programa Interdisciplinario de Investigación Experimental en Comunicación y Cognición (PIIECC), Facultad de Humanidades, USACH [https://fahu.usach.cl/]. M.de V.: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [https://www.ciencia.gob.es/] (Grant PID2021-126172NB-I00) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) [https://www.fondoseuropeos.hacienda.gob.es/sitios/dgfc/es-ES/paginas/feder.aspx]. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jul 2026