Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and abstractions: Local fMRI activity indexes semantics, not lexical categories

Brain and Language

Volumn 132, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-42

  Moseley, Rachel L ^a,b   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^c  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embodied meaning; FMRI; Grammatical category; Lexical category; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBODIED MEANING; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INSULA; LANGUAGE; LEXICAL CATEGORY; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84899949359     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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