Neurophysiological Distinction of Action Words in the Fronto-Central Cortex

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 191-201

  Hauk, Olaf ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedman ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Beam former estimates; Cell assemblies; EEG; Language perception; Mirror neurons; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FACE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEG MOVEMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 1542305689     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.10157     Document Type: Article

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