The role of mirror neurons in speech perception and action word semantics

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 749-776

  Hickok, Gregory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action semantics; Aphasia; Mirror neurons; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

APHASIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MONKEY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE CELL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SOUND; SPEECH; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH DEVELOPMENT; THEORY; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 77953710457     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690961003595572     Document Type: Article

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