All talk and no action: A transcranial magnetic stimulation study of motor cortex activation during action word production

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 374-381

  Oliveri, Massimiliano ^c,e   Finocchiaro, Chiara ^d   Shapiro, Kevin ^b   Gangitano, Massimo ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^a,f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^d SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^f University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 1642330254     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904322926719     Document Type: Article

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