Embodied meaning in a neural theory of language

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 385-392

  Feldman, Jerome ^a   Narayanan, Srinivas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPUTER MODEL; EMOTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 1842450198     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00355-9     Document Type: Article

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