Meaning and the brain: The neurosemantics of referential, interactive, and combinatorial knowledge

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 423-459

  Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action perception circuit; Associative learning; Brain; Combinatorial information; Discreteness; Meaning; Neuronal circuit; Semantic category; Sensorimotor theory

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT SEMANTICS; AFFECTIVE EMOTIONAL SEMANTICS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATICITY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN METABOLISM; BRAIN REGION; COMBINATORIAL SEMANTICS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EMOTIONALITY; FUNTIONAL RELEVANCE; HUMAN; IMMEDIACY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE STIMULATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; OBJECT AND ACTION SEMANTICS; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIMULATION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL MODEL; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84860917278     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: 18738052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.03.004     Document Type: Article

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