"She" is not like "I": The tie between language and action is in our imagination

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3939-3948

  Papeo, Liuba ^a   Corradi Dell'Acqua, Corrado ^b   Rumiati, Raffaella Ida ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECOGNITION TEST; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80055103767     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00075     Document Type: Article

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