Action observation and speech production: Study on children and adults

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1554-1567

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arm action observation; Children; Formant analysis; Lip kinematics; Syllable pronunciation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRUIT; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE; LIP; MASTICATION; OBSERVATION; RECOGNITION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VOICE; VOWEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; FEMALE; GESTURES; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 3042754789     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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