Automatic ultrarapid activation and inhibition of cortical motor systems in spoken word comprehension

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 18, 2014, Pages

  Shtyrov, Yury ^a,b,c   Butorina, Anna ^d   Nikolaeva, Anastasia ^d   Stroganova, Tatiana ^d  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^d MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Lexical semantics; Magnetoencephalography; MEG; Mismatch negativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; BODY REGIONS; CENTRAL SULCUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EMBODIED COGNITION; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MEG; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899806998     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323158111     Document Type: Article

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