Mirror neurons, the representation of word meaning, and the foot of the third left frontal convolution

Brain and Language

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 77-84

  de Zubicaray, Greig ^a   Postle, Natasha ^a   McMahon, Katie ^a   Meredith, Matthew ^a   Ashton, Roderick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action observation; Broca's area; Imitation; Language comprehension; Mirror neurons; Phonology; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; BROCA AREA; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMITATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIRROR NEURON; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 72249088452     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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