Action verb understanding in first-episode schizophrenia: Is there evidence for a simulation deficit?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 988-996

  Ferri, Francesca ^a,b   Salone, Anatolia ^b   Ebisch, Sjoerd J ^b   De Berardis, Domenico ^c   Romani, Gian Luca ^b   Ferro, Filippo M ^b   Gallese, Vittorio ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^c G Mazzini Hospital   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action verbs; Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC); First episode schizophrenia (FES); Inverse efficiency; Motor simulation; Voxel based morphometry (VBM)

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858450256     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.02.005     Document Type: Article

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