Flexibility in embodied lexical-semantic representations

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 2322-2333

  Van Dam, Wessel O ^a   van Dijk, Margriet ^a   Bekkering, Harold ^a   Rueschemeyer, Shirley Ann ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action; Conceptual flexibility; Embodiment; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS; VISUAL ADAPTATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865466492     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: 10970193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.21365     Document Type: Article

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