An investigation of semantic similarity judgments about action and non-action verbs in Parkinson's disease: Implications for the Embodied Cognition Framework

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue APR 2013, 2013, Pages

  Kemmerer, David ^a,b   Miller, Luke ^c   MacPherson, Megan K ^a   Huber, Jessica ^a   Tranel, Daniel ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Action; Embodied Cognition; Mental simulation; Mirror neuron system; Parkinson disease; Verbs

Indexed keywords

LEVODOPA;

ACTION VERB; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISSOCIATION; MENTAL TASK; NON ACTION VERB; PARKINSON DISEASE; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 84933676306     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00146     Document Type: Article

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