Task related modulation of the motor system during language processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 83-90

  Sato, Marc ^a   Mengarelli, Marisa ^a   Riggio, Lucia ^a   Gallese, Vittorio ^a   Buccino, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embodied theories of language; Language; Lexical decision task; Mirror neuron system; Semantics decision task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; FOOT; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 42249099995     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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