Listening to action-related sentences modulates the activity of the motor system: A combined TMS and behavioral study

Cognitive Brain Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 355-363

  Buccino, G ^a   Riggio, L ^a   Melli, G ^a   Binkofski, F ^b   Gallese, V ^a   Rizzolatti, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action related sentence; Mirror neuron system; Motor evoked potential; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FOOT; HAND; HAND MUSCLE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 23644461648     PISSN: 09266410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogbrainres.2005.02.020     Document Type: Article

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