She runs, the road runs, my mind runs, bad blood runs between us: Literal and figurative motion verbs: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 83, Issue , 2013, Pages 361-371

  Romero Lauro, Leonor J ^a   Mattavelli, Giulia ^a   Papagno, Costanza ^a   Tettamanti, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fictive motion; FMRI; Idiom; Metaphor; Motion verbs; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FICTIVE MOTION; FIGURATIVE MOTION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDIOM; IMAGE DISPLAY; LANGUAGE; LEG MOVEMENT; LITERATURE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRIATE CORTEX; ACTION POTENTIAL; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; IMAGINATION; LEG; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE NET; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880954855     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.06.050     Document Type: Article

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