Speech listening specifically modulates the excitability of tongue muscles: A TMS study

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 399-402

  Fadiga, Luciano ^a   Craighero, Laila ^a,b   Buccino, Giovanni ^b   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mirror neurons; Motor system; Motor theory of speech perception; Motor evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONEME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TONGUE; TONGUE MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE;

EID: 0036460701     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0953-816x.2001.01874.x     Document Type: Article

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