Dynamic evocation of hand action representations during sentence comprehension

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 742-762

  Masson, Michael E J ^a   Bub, Daniel N ^a   Lavelle, Hillary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Action representations; Goal structures; Motor imagery; Motor resonance; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84888057132     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030161     Document Type: Article

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