Training of manual actions improves language understanding of semantically related action sentences

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue DEC, 2012, Pages

  Locatelli, Matteo ^a   Gatti, Roberto ^a,b   Tettamanti, Marco ^b  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action training; Conceptual semantics; Embodied cognition; Language understanding; Sensory motor system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874566378     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00547     Document Type: Article

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