Dissociating the representation of action- and sound-related concepts in middle temporal cortex

Brain and Language

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 120-125

  Kiefer, Markus ^a   Trumpp, Natalie ^a   Herrnberger, Bärbel ^a   Sim, Eun Jin ^a   Hoenig, Klaus ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action related concepts; Embodied cognition; FMRI; Language; Middle temporal gyrus; Sound related concepts

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROIMAGING; SEMANTICS; SOUND; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864298831     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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