A sentence is to speech as what is to action?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 507-514

  Arbib, Michael A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Area F5; Broca's area; Language as goal directed action; Mirror neurons; Motor syntax; Ventral premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FRONTAL LOBE; GESTURE; GRAMMAR; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; IMITATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MACACA; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; PHONETICS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY; VOCALIZATION; ANIMAL; BRAIN CORTEX; HAND GRIP; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LANGUAGE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; INFORMATION THEORY; LANGUAGE; MACACA; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPEECH;

EID: 33747498137     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70388-5     Document Type: Article

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