No specific role for the manual motor system in processing the meanings of words related to the hand

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Postle, Natasha ^a   Ashton, Roderick ^b   McFarland, Ken ^b   de Zubicaray, Greig I ^b  

^a Redcliffe Caboolture Child and Youth Mental Health Service   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Action representations; Embodied language; Motor system; Word meaning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HANDEDNESS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RECALL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84933676193     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00011     Document Type: Article

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