The Brain's Dorsal Route for Speech Represents Word Meaning: Evidence from Gesture

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Josse, Goulven ^a   Joseph, Sabine ^b   Bertasi, Eric ^c   Giraud, Anne Lise ^d  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM FUNCTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866865770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046108     Document Type: Article

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