To move or not to move: Imperatives modulate action-related verb processing in the motor system

Neuroscience

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 246-258

  Tomasino, B ^a   Weiss, P H ^a   Fink, G R ^a,b  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; FMRI; Motor imagery; Motor simulation; Premotor cortex; Primary motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77953809614     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.04.039     Document Type: Article

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