Carol Madden-Lombardi's research while affiliated with French National Centre for Scientific Research and other places

... Neurophysiological manifestations of such simulation during action reading include the increase of corticospinal excitability in Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) studies (W. Dupont et al., 2022a;Innocenti et al., 2014;Labruna et al., 2011;Papeo et al., 2013Papeo et al., , 2009 and the activation of the motor system in neuro-imaging studies (Aziz-Zadeh et al., 2006;Hauk et al., 2004;Tettamanti et al., 2005;Van Dam et al., 2010;Wu et al., 2013). Although certain findings speak against the automatic involvement of the motor cortex during the processing of action words (de Zubicaray et al., 2013;Grossman et al., 2002;Longe et al., 2007;Mahon, 2015;Mahon and Caramazza, 2008;Perani et al., 1999;Wurm and Caramazza, 2019), these discrepancies could be partially explained by task-related factors, such as the type of linguistic tasks or stimuli used, or by top-down processes, such as participants' reading strategies. ...

... Neurophysiological studies focusing on Event-Related brain Potentials (ERPs) have revealed a cortical overlap between the processing of meaning in written and visual stories. For example, the N400 is elicited not only by the congruency of a sentence-final word with its preceding context during comprehension (Kutas and Federmeier, 2011;Kutas and Hillyard, 1980), but also by a final image that is semantically anomalous in the visual narrative context (e.g., Cohn et al., 2012;Jouen et al., 2021;West and Holcomb, 2002). ...

... The latest search was carried out in October 2021. Seven extra studies were located, but one of them (Dupont et al., 2020) was discarded because it was still in a preprint version. This increased our article sample to 43 studies. ...

... Fourth, neurobiological evidence indicates that there are neural overlaps in the processing of sentences and images that depict events (53)(54)(55). This would suggest that a language network emerged out of a neural basis dedicated to event apprehension, perhaps explaining why agents and patients are processed by distinct neural populations during sentence comprehension (56). ...

... One main difference is that the linguistic constructions might be different in representing event details. There is already much empirical evidence that the use of the English progressive aspect directs the comprehender's attention to more event details, such as the location of the event (Ferretti et al., 2007), the intention of the actor (Sherrill et al., 2015), and the manner of action (Madden-Lombardi et al., 2017), compared with the use of perfective aspect. ...

... To probe whether implicit imagery is at play during action reading, participants were asked to self-report the vividness of images while reading about concrete visual, concrete motor, and abstract content on a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being a highly vivid image and 5 being no image (Madden-Lombardi et al., 2015). A repeated measures ANOVA pointed out a main effect of Group (F1,30=326.60, ...

... For the inquiry into the processing of aspects among monolinguals, the focus has been on the role of grammatical aspect in constructing the structural representation of an event (e.g., Altmann and Kamide, 2007) and more recently on the interplay between grammatical aspect and lexical aspect during sentence comprehension (e.g., Yap et al., 2009;Becker et al., 2013). A staple approach to tap into language processing on this topic is the use of online tasks, often with two contrasting visuals so that participants can match sentences with the visual information that depicts the situation. ...