Embodied comprehension of stories: Interactions between language regions and modality-specific neural systems

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 279-295

  Chow, Ho Ming ^a   Mar, Raymond A ^b   Xu, Yisheng ^a   Liu, Siyuan ^a   Wagage, Suraji ^a   Braun, Allen R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN REGION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NARRATIVE; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STIMULUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; PERCEPTION; POETRY AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84891436011     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00487     Document Type: Article

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