Mental representations of action: The neural correlates of the verbal and motor components

Brain Research

Volumn 1328, Issue , 2010, Pages 89-103

  Péran, Patrice ^a,b   Démonet, Jean François ^b   Cherubini, Andrea ^a   Carbebat, Dominique ^b   Caltagirone, Carlo ^a,c   Sabatini, Umberto ^a  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Inferior parietal cortex; Language; Semantics of action; Simulation of action; Superior parietal cortex; Verb

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARIETAL LOBE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950593491     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.02.082     Document Type: Article

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