When the hands speak

Journal of Physiology Paris

Volumn 102, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 21-30

  Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a   Dalla Volta, Riccardo ^a   Gianelli, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Broca's area; Gesture; Hand and mouth kinematics; Mirror system; Spoken language; Voice spectra

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; GESTURE; HAND FUNCTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MONKEY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; GESTURES; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MANUAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH;

EID: 44949188270     PISSN: 09284257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jphysparis.2008.03.002     Document Type: Article

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