Testing the connection of the mirror system and speech. How articulation affects imitation in a simple response task

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1513-1521

  Kühn, Simone ^a,b,c   Brass, Marcel ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Imitation; Mirror neuron system; Speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; FEMALE; FINGER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FINGERS; FOOT; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; NERVE NET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; TONGUE; VIDEODISC RECORDING;

EID: 42749094656     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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