Congruent Embodied Representations for Visually Presented Actions and Linguistic Phrases Describing Actions

Current Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 2006, Pages 1818-1823

  Aziz Zadeh, Lisa ^a,b,c   Wilson, Stephen M ^d   Rizzolatti, Giacomo ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 33748460921     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2006.07.060     Document Type: Article

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