Brain reflections of words and their meaning

Trends in Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 517-524

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PROCESSING;

CORTICAL AREAS;

BRAIN;

BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; EFFERENT NERVE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MEMORY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SENSORY NERVE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035576936     PISSN: 13646613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01803-9     Document Type: Review

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