一項(xiàng)新的研究表明,，進(jìn)行體育運(yùn)動(dòng),，甚至只是觀看體育運(yùn)動(dòng)，也可能有助于更好地理解語言,，該研究表明冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)員和球迷的大腦可以更好地處理與冰球有關(guān)的語言,。
此前的研究已經(jīng)表明從事體育運(yùn)動(dòng)可以改變感覺和運(yùn)動(dòng)神經(jīng)回路，而學(xué)習(xí)一門語言可以改變大腦支持語言的區(qū)域的神經(jīng)連接,。Sian Beilock及其同事如今發(fā)現(xiàn)從事一項(xiàng)體育運(yùn)動(dòng),，甚至去觀看一場(chǎng)比賽，可以改變大腦中涉及處理體育語言的區(qū)域的活動(dòng),。
這組科學(xué)家讓12位冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)員,、8位球迷和9位從未觀看過冰球的人接受了一組語言測(cè)試,。受試者聽到關(guān)于人們?nèi)粘Ｉ畹木渥樱蛘哧P(guān)于冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)的句子,，例如射門或者救球。盡管所有的受試者都迅速聽懂了關(guān)于日常生活的句子,，冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)員和球迷在理解與冰球有關(guān)的句子方面的表現(xiàn)要遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)好于不懂冰球的人,。磁共振成像分析表明當(dāng)冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)員和球迷聽到關(guān)于這種運(yùn)動(dòng)的句子的時(shí)候，他們的大腦的特定區(qū)域出現(xiàn)了活動(dòng),，這些區(qū)域是用于安排和執(zhí)行熟悉的身體活動(dòng),。這組作者提出，這種活動(dòng)的增加幫助了冰球運(yùn)動(dòng)員和球迷理解冰球的語言,。（生物谷Bioon.com）
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PNAS published ahead of print September 2, 2008,doi:10.1073/pnas.0803424105
Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language
Sian L. Beilock, Ian M. Lyons, Andrew Mattarella-Micke, Howard C. Nusbaum, and Steven L. Small
Experience alters behavior by producing enduring changes in the neural processes that support performance. For example, performing a specific action improves the execution of that action via changes in associated sensory and motor neural circuitry, and experience using language improves language comprehension by altering the anatomy and physiology of perisylvian neocortical brain regions. Here we provide evidence that specialized (sports) motorexperience enhances action-related language understanding by recruitment of left dorsal lateral premotor cortex, a region normally devoted to higher-level action selection and implementation—even when there is no intention to perform a real action. Experience playing and watching sports has enduring effects on language understanding by changing the neural networks that subserve comprehension to incorporate areas active in performing sports skills. Without such experience, sport novices recruit lower-level sensory-motor regions, thought to support the instantiation of movement, during language processing, and activity in primary motor areas does not help comprehension. Thus, the language system is sufficiently plastic and dynamic to encompass expertise-related neural recruitment outside core language networks.
