Sentential context modulates the involvement of the motor cortex in action language processing: An fMRI study

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Schuil, Karen D I ^a   Smits, Marion ^b   Zwaan, Rolf A ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Action simulation; Embodied cognition; fMRI; Language comprehension; Semantic somatotopy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL ACTIVITY; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SENTENTIAL CONTEXT; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84933678393     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00100     Document Type: Article

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