Neural correlates of the enactment effect in the brain
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A better recall for subject-performed actions compared to similar action phrases encoded verbally is a well known phenomenon (e.g. Knopf & Neidhardt, 1989). There is an ongoing discussion about the basis of this so called enactment effect. Recent fMRI studies encour-aged theories which assume other mechanisms than just a motor modality effect. In the Russ et al. study (2004) brain activity for recognition of subject-performed vs. verbally en-coded action events was located in the gyrus supramarginalis, a structure that is involved in gesture production and related coding processes. The findings we want to present of two recent studies point to a structure nearby (gyrus angularis). Additionally, when com-paring target recognition to distractor rejection we consistently found activation in temporal brain areas that are not currently known to be related to episodic memory so long.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Beiträge zur 49. Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen : 26. bis 28. März 2007 in Trier |
| Editors | Karl F. Wender, Silvia Mecklenbräuker, Günter Daniel Rey, Thomas Wehr |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Place of Publication | Lengerich |
| Publisher | Pabst Science Publishers |
| Publication date | 2007 |
| Pages | 209 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-3899673715, 3899673719 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |
| Event | Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen - Trier Duration: 26.03.2007 → 28.03.2007 Conference number: 49 |
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