Early semantic and phonological effects on temporal- and muscle-specific motor resonance

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2391-2399

  Meister, Ingo G ^a,b,c   Wu, Allan D ^a   Deblieck, Choi ^a   Iacoboni, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action observation; Language; Premotor cortex; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84864828862     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08134.x     Document Type: Article

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