The lateralization of motor cortex activation to action-words

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue NOVEMBER, 2011, Pages

  Hauk, Olaf ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a  

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

Author keywords

Embodiment; fMRI; Semantics; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ACTION WORD; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MOTOR CORTEX; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTICS; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84933673859     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2011.00149     Document Type: Article

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