Parkinson's disease disrupts both automatic and controlled processing of action verbs

Brain and Language

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-74

  Fernandino, Leonardo ^a   Conant, Lisa L ^a   Binder, Jeffrey R ^a   Blindauer, Karen ^a   Hiner, Bradley ^a   Spangler, Katie ^a   Desai, Rutvik H ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Conceptual processing; Embodiment; Language comprehension; Lexical semantics; Parkinson's disease; Priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR SYSTEM; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEMANTICS;

CONCEPTUAL PROCESSING; EMBODIMENT; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; PARKINSON'S DISEASE; PRIMING;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARKINSON DISEASE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84880963780     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.07.008     Document Type: Article

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