Action representation: Crosstalk between semantics and pragmatics

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 51-56

  Prinz, Wolfgang ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Action representation; Action simulation; Language comprehension; Pragmatics; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ACTION PRAGMATICS; ACTION REPRESENTATION; ACTION SEMANTICS; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR REPRESENTATION; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PRAGMATICS; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION;

ACTION REPRESENTATION; ACTION SIMULATION; LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; PRAGMATICS; SEMANTICS;

COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84893951603     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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