Motion verb sentences activate left posterior middle temporal cortex despite static context

NeuroReport

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 649-652

  Wallentin, Mikkel ^a,b   Lund, Torben Ellegaard ^c   Østergaard, Svend ^a   Oøstergaard, Leif ^b   Roepstorff, Andreas ^a,b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Action semantics; Context; Fictive motion; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Language; Lateral posterior middle temporal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VERB;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 17844374623     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200504250-00027     Document Type: Article

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