Question: Your textbook describes research by Hauk and colleagues (2004) in which participants were asked to read action words while their brain activity was being recorded. What important finding did this research discover? Doing actions and silently reading action words activated similar motor areas of the brain. The same area of the brain is active when reading action words over multiple trials. Silently reading action words activated a general semantic knowledge hub in the anterior temporal lobe. Doing actions revealed motor representations in the brain are topographically organized. Need Assignment Help?