Neuromagnetic hand and foot motor sources recruited during action verb processing

Brain and Language

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 41-52

  Klepp, Anne ^a   Weissler, Hannah ^a   Niccolai, Valentina ^a   Terhalle, Anselm ^a   Geisler, Hans ^a   Schnitzler, Alfons ^a   Biermann Ruben, Katja ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action verbs; Dipole sources; Embodied cognition; MEG

Indexed keywords

ACTION VERB PROCESSING; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOOT MOVEMENT; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

ACTION VERBS; DIPOLE SOURCES; EMBODIED COGNITION; MEG;

BRAIN; COGNITION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FOOT; HAND; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOVEMENT; PARIETAL LOBE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84892547319     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.12.001     Document Type: Article

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