When action turns into words. Activation of motor-based knowledge during categorization of manipulable objects

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1230-1239

  Gerlach, Christian ^a   Law, Ian ^a   Paulson, Olaf B ^a  

^a University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN 18; WATER;

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLOTHING; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEURORADIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBJECT RELATION; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; VEGETABLE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0037111620     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892902760807221     Document Type: Article

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