Walking the talk-Speech activates the leg motor cortex

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2824-2830

  Liuzzi, Gianpiero ^a,b   Ellger, Tanja ^a   Flöel, Agnes ^a   Breitenstein, Caterina ^a   Jansen, Andreas ^a,c   Knecht, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gestures; Humans; Language; Mirror neurons; Motor theory of speech; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; READING; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEARING; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; READING; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WALKING;

EID: 47349098843     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.05.015     Document Type: Article

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