Language is embodied in the motor system – evidence from Metaanalysis

Embodiment links the individual sensorimotor experiences with higher cognitive functions such as language processing and comprehension. Connecting motor abilities with cognitive capacities contradicts with the classic view, which assumes a clear-cut separation between low and high level processes, and which states that cognition derives from computational processes in separate domains. The embodiment perspective implies that brain areas related to action and language can no longer be seen as independent, but rather working in concert. Areas traditionally regarded as pure motor areas as e.g. the primary motor or…