How symbolic gestures and words interact with each other

Brain and Language

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-11

  Barbieri, Filippo ^a   Buonocore, Antimo ^a   Volta, Riccardo Dalla ^a   Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Arm kinematics; Broca's area; Symbolic gestures; Voice spectra; Words

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN REGION; BROCA AREA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTEGRATION; KINEMATICS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PARAMETER; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VOICE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349280347     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.01.002     Document Type: Article

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