Behavioral patterns and lesion sites associated with impaired processing of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 826-848

  Kemmerer, David ^a,b   Rudrauf, David ^a,c   Manzel, Ken ^a   Tranel, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Actions; Concepts; Embodied cognition; Mirror neuron system; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; POSTCENTRAL GYRUS; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIRROR NEURONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 84861847748     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.11.001     Document Type: Article

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