Gestures Orchestrate Brain Networks for Language Understanding

Current Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 661-667

  Skipper, Jeremy I ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Nusbaum, Howard C ^a   Small, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

SYSNEURO

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65049089872     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.051     Document Type: Article

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