«L’allenamento motorio migliora la comprensione di testi in cui compaiono verbi d’azione» for Qui Uniud, Italy

It is an advance of Argentine scientists; it is a linguistic test based on reading a story with a high number of movement verbs; it has 84% success in the classification of patients without cognitive impairment.

«The collaboration with Buenos Aires was born almost by chance,» says Trevisan. The experiment that we were organizing in Sydney predicted that the children moved a lot, two hours during nine consecutive days, and from there arose the idea of involving Adolfo M. García, who runs the Buenos Aires Laboratory and studied the relationship for many years. between the movement of the body and the action verbs. Now it is a fact recognized by the scientific community that movement verbs are processed by the same areas of the brain that also process the movements of the body. »

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