The disembodiment effect of negation: Negating action-related sentences attenuates their interference on congruent upper limb movements

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1782-1792

  Bartoli, Eleonora ^a   Tettamanti, Andrea ^a,c   Farronato, Paolo ^a   Caporizzo, Armanda ^a   Moro, Andrea ^b   Gatti, Roberto ^a,c   Perani, Daniela ^a,c   Tettamanti, Marco ^c  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b NeTS IUSS Center for Neurolinguistics and Theoretical Syntax   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Concept; Disembodiment; Embodied systems; Negation; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM MOVEMENT; ARM MUSCLE; ARTICLE; ATTENUATION; CONCEPT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEMBODIMENT EFFECT OF NEGATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; KINEMATICS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; ARM; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HUMANS; MALE; MOVEMENT; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84878510818     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00894.2012     Document Type: Article

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