Language perception activates the hand motor cortex: Implications for motor theories of speech perception

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 704-708

  Flöel, Agnes ^a,b   Ellger, Tanja ^b   Breitenstein, Caterina ^b   Knecht, Stefan ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gesture; Mirror neurons; Motor system; Motor theory of speech perception; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADULT; AGING; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETICS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PERCEPTION; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0041378198     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02774.x     Document Type: Article

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