Embodied language: A review of the role of the motor system in language comprehension

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 825-850

  Fischer, Martin H ^a   Zwaan, Rolf A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Language processing; Mirror neurons; Motor resonance; Perception and action

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NERVE CELL; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISION; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MOTION PERCEPTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ORIENTATION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 47549095866     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210701623605     Document Type: Article

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