Modulation of motor and premotor cortices by actions, action words and action sentences

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 388-396

  Raposo, Ana ^a   Moss, Helen E ^a   Stamatakis, Emmanuel A ^a   Tyler, Lorraine K ^a,b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Motor circuitry; Semantic context

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58849159100     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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