Cortical motor systems are involved in second-language comprehension: Evidence from rapid mu-rhythm desynchronisation

NeuroImage

Volumn 102, Issue P2, 2014, Pages 695-703

  Vukovic, Nikola ^a   Shtyrov, Yury ^b,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

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

Author keywords

Electroencephalography (EEG); Embodied cognition; Event related desyncronisation (ERD); Lexical semantics; Motor cortex; Mu rhythm; Second language processing (L2)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MU RHYTHM; NEOCORTEX; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLATION; PERCEPTION; READING; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VOLUNTEER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; MULTILINGUALISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; BRAIN WAVES; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MULTILINGUALISM; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84907160933     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.08.039     Document Type: Article

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