Motor excitability during visual perception of known and unknown spoken languages

Brain and Language

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-7

  Swaminathan, Swathi ^a,b   MacSweeney, Mairéad ^c   Boyles, Rowan ^a   Waters, Dafydd ^c   Watkins, Kate E ^a   Möttönen, Riikka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action observation; Bilingualism; Lipreading; Motor cortex; Motor evoked potentials; Social cognition; Speech; Speechreading; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILINGUALISM; EXCITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LIP READING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; MOUTH; SOCIAL COGNITION; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISION; ADULT; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LIPREADING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84877040486     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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