Dissociation and association of the embodied representation of tool-use verbs and hand verbs: An fMRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 167-174

  Yang, Jie ^a   Shu, Hua ^a   Bi, Yanchao ^a   Liu, Youyi ^a   Wang, Xiaoyi ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese hand action verbs; Chinese tool use action verbs; Embodied theory; Semantic knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HAND FUNCTION; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOOL USE;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054107893     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.06.001     Document Type: Article

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