title: Dorsal stream areas process action semantics.
abstract: Abstract Evidence from recent studies investigating the functional and neural mechanisms supporting action semantics, i.e., the knowledge of how to use objects in a functionally appropriate manner, suggests that semantic processing for action is not restricted to high-level perceptual processing in the ventral stream but is directly associated with activation in dorsal areas, i.e., the motor system, and motor performance. These findings argue for a distributed and interactive account of action semantics and against functionally independent processing in dorsal and ventral stream areas.
authors.affiliation: a Behavioural Science Institute , Radboud University Nijmegen , PO Box 9104 , 6500 , HE , Nijmegen , The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Michiel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: van Elk
authors.forename: Hein T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: van Schie
authors.forename: Harold
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bekkering