Execution and observation of bringing a fruit to the mouth affect syllable pronunciation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 190-202

  Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a   Santunione, Paola ^a   Roy, Alice C ^a   Stefanini, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brining to the mouth; Human kinematics; Syllable; Voice formants

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPLE; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CHERRY; CONSONANT; FEMALE; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LIP; MOUTH; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOCALIZATION; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; ARM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MOTOR CORTEX; MOUTH; MOVEMENT; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1642580576     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03104.x     Document Type: Article

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