Grip Force Reveals the Context Sensitivity of Language-Induced Motor Activity during "Action Words" Processing: Evidence from Sentential Negation

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Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Aravena, Pia ^a   Delevoye Turrell, Yvonne ^b   Deprez, Viviane ^a   Cheylus, Anne ^a   Paulignan, Yves ^a   Frak, Victor ^c   Nazir, Tatjana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

^c Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFFIRMATIVE ACTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870843614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050287     Document Type: Article

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