The observation of manual grasp actions affects the control of speech: A combined behavioral and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3190-3202

  Gentilucci, Maurizio ^a   Campione, Giovanna Cristina ^a   Dalla Volta, Riccardo ^a   Bernardis, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mirror system; Mouth kinematics; Speech; Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation; Voice spectra

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND GRIP; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PHONATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOICE;

ADULT; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OBSERVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350354574     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.020     Document Type: Article

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