Shweta Narayan
University of California, Berkeley
18 Papers
16 Citations
Shweta Narayan is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Biology. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 6 publications.
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Papers
Body part representations in verbal semantics
TL;DR: This robust interference effect, whereby a shared effector slows discrimination, shows that language understanders activate effector-specific neurocognitive representations during both picture perception and action word understanding.
Embodied Verbal Semantics: Evidence from an Image-Verb Matching Task
Benjamin Bergen,Shweta Narayan,Jerome A. Feldman +2 more
- 01 Jan 2003
TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that understanding action language requires the activation of effector-specific neural circuitry in the human mirror system.
Simulated Action in an Embodied Construction Grammar
Benjamin Bergen,Nancy Chang,Shweta Narayan +2 more
- 01 Jan 2004
TL;DR: Diverse evidence is synthesized for an integrated view of language use and Embodied Construction Grammar (ECG), a formally specified instantiation of the approach, is presented, which supports a model of human language use in which linguistic meanings serve to parameterize motor and perceptual structures.
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Related to Climate Change and its Health Aspects among the Healthcare Workforce in India – A Cross-Sectional Study
TL;DR: The authors conducted a cross-sectional study to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices related to climate change and health among the healthcare workforce in India (i.e., community health workers, doctors, etc.).
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