Inferences about action engage action systems

Brain and Language

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 62-67

  Taylor, Lawrence J ^a   Lev Ari, Shiri ^b   Zwaan, Rolf A ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse processes; Embodied cognition; Inference generation; Mental simulation; Motor resonance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SIMULATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 52949084601     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.08.004     Document Type: Article

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