Modulation of the motor system during visual and auditory language processing

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-250

  Labruna, Ludovica ^a,b   Fernández Del Olmo, Miguel ^c   Landau, Ayelet ^b   Duqué, Julie ^d   Ivry, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Facultade de Ciencias Do Deporte e A Educación Física   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Action; Auditory; Embodiment; Language; Listening; Reading; TMS; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXCITABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958262988     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2678-z     Document Type: Article

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