Sentence processing: Linking language to motor chains

Frontiers in Neurorobotics

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2010, Pages

  Chersi, Fabian ^a   Thill, Serge ^b   Ziemke, Tom ^b   Borghi, Anna M ^a,c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SKÖVDE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action chains; Embodied cognition; Motor system; Neural network; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956652193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbot.2010.00004     Document Type: Article

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