Disrupting the brain to validate hypotheses on the neurobiology of language

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Papeo, Liuba ^a,b   Pascual Leone, Alvaro ^c,d   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Action understanding; Cognitive neuropsychology; Language semantics; Neuroimaging; Neuromodulation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PHONETICS; PRECENTRAL MOTOR AREA; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 84933673919     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00148     Document Type: Review

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