Actions, words, and numbers: A motor contribution to semantic processing?

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 313-317

  Andres, Michael ^a   Olivier, Etienne ^a   Badets, Arnaud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action; Calculation; Embodied cognition; Finger counting; Grasping; Hand; Language; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 54049088558     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00597.x     Document Type: Review

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