Inflection in action: Semantic motor system activation to noun- and verb-containing phrases is modulated by the presence of overt grammatical markers

NeuroImage

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1367-1379

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,b   Cook, Clare ^a   Hauk, Olaf ^a  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action words; Cell assembly; Event related fMRI; Language and action

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGONAL BAND OF BROCA; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856866947     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.12.020     Document Type: Article

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