"How to do things with Words": Role of motor cortex in semantic representation of action words

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 3403-3409

  Kana, Rajesh K ^a   Blum, Elizabeth R ^a   Ladden, Stacy Levin ^b   Ver Hoef, Lawrence W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b ARGOSY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; FMRI; Mental state; Mirror neurons; Motor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; SEMANTICS; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OXYGEN; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84868311437     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.09.006     Document Type: Article

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