Body schematics: On the role of the body schema in embodied lexical-semantic representations

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 774-781

  Rueschemeyer, Shirley Ann ^a   Pfeiffer, Christian ^a,b   Bekkering, Harold ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action; Body schema; Embodiment; Semantics; Sense of body

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSITION; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

BODY IMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74449085289     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.019     Document Type: Article

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