Grasping ideas with the motor system: Semantic somatotopy in idiom comprehension

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1905-1914

  Boulenger, Véronique ^a,b   Hauk, Olaf ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b Institut des Sciences de l'Homme   (France)

Author keywords

Action words; FMRI; Idioms; Motor cortex; Semantic somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SEMANTICS;

EID: 67651099070     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn217     Document Type: Article

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