Listening to speech recruits specific tongue motor synergies as revealed by transcranial magnetic stimulation and tissue-Doppler ultrasound imaging

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1644, 2014, Pages

  D'Ausilio, A ^a   Maffongelli, L ^a   Bartoli, E ^a   Campanella, M ^a   Ferrari, E ^a   Berry, J ^a   Fadiga, L ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mirror neurons; Motor synergies; Motor theory of speech perception; Speech perception; Tongue; Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DOPPLER EFFECT; KINEMATICS; MAGNETIC PROPERTY; NOISE; SOUND PROPAGATION; SYNERGISM; ULTRASONICS;

AUDITORY STIMULATION; BIOMECHANICS; CYTOLOGY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; EFFERENT NERVE; HEARING; HUMAN; MIRROR NEURON; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CYTOLOGY; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; HEARING; HUMANS; MIRROR NEURONS; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TONGUE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 84899644137     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0418     Document Type: Article

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