Hands on the future: Facilitation of cortico-spinal hand-representation when reading the future tense of hand-related action verbs

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 677-683

  Candidi, Matteo ^a,b   Leone Fernandez, Barbara ^c   Barber, Horacio A ^c   Carreiras, Manuel ^c,d,e   Aglioti, Salvatore Maria ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^d BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^e BASQUE FOUNDATION FOR SCIENCE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Action anticipation; Language; Motor expertise; Motor simulation; Single pulse TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HAND MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FORECASTING; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; READING; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955760473     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2010.07305.x     Document Type: Article

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