The involvement of the left motor cortex in learning of a novel action word lexicon

Current Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1745-1751

  Liuzzi, Gianpiero ^a,b   Freundlieb, Nils ^a   Ridder, Volker ^a   Hoppe, Julia ^a   Heise, Kirstin ^a   Zimerman, Maximo ^a   Dobel, Christian ^b   Enriquez Geppert, Stefanie ^b   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^b   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

CORDEAUXIA EDULIS;

EID: 77957852157     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.034     Document Type: Article

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