Processing time shifts affects the execution of motor responses

Brain and Language

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-44

  Sell, Andrea J ^a   Kaschak, Michael P ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language comprehension; Motor system; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR SYSTEM; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL SUMMATION; TIME PERCEPTION;

BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REACTION TIME; TIME;

EID: 79953731727     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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