Motor resonance as a function of narrative time: Further tests of the linguistic focus hypothesis

Brain and Language

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 143-149

  Zwaan, Rolf A ^a   Taylor, Lawrence J ^a   de Boer, Mirte ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discourse comprehension; Embodied cognition; Language comprehension; Linguistic focus; Mental simulation; Motor resonance; Motor system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NARRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77649338775     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2008.11.004     Document Type: Article

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