The effects of rTMS over the primary motor cortex: The link between action and language

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 8-13

  Repetto, Claudia ^a   Colombo, Barbara ^a   Cipresso, Pietro ^b   Riva, Giuseppe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA DEL SACRO CUORE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action verbs; Comprehension; Embodied language; RTMS; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE STIMULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870479680     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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