The origin of word-related motor activity

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1668-1675

  Papeo, Liuba ^a,b   Lingnau, Angelika ^b   Agosta, Sara ^c   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^d,e   Battelli, Lorella ^c   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e University Institute affiliated with the Autonomous University of Barcelona   (Spain)

Author keywords

brain stimulation; concepts; embodied cognition; functional connectivity; nouns and verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORCED CHOICE METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT POSTERIOR MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930347441     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht423     Document Type: Article

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