Co-speech gestures influence neural activity in brain regions associated with processing semantic information

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 3509-3526

  Dick, Anthony Steven ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a   Hasson, Uri ^b   Skipper, Jeremy I ^c   Small, Steven L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse comprehension; fMRI; Gestures; Inferior frontal gyrus; Semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SUBICULUM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350330881     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.20774     Document Type: Article

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