ERP DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PROCESSING OF BODY ACTION AND MENTAL ACTION VERBS
身体活动与心理活动动词加工的ERP比较

An experiment was conducted to examine the difference between body action verbs and mental action verbs u-sing ERP measurements and lexical decision task. Results showed that mental action verbs were associated with a more positive ERP than body action verbs around occipital sites of the left hemisphere between 200 to 300 ms. Between 300 to 400 ms, ERP differences between two types of verbs were primarily over the left hemisphere and mid-line site, especially around the central areas. Body action verbs were associated with a more negative ERP than mental action verbs. The neurobiological theory of language representation can partly explain our results.