Somatotopic Semantic Priming and Prediction in the Motor System

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2353-2366

  Grisoni, Luigi ^a   Dreyer, Felix R ^a   Pulvermüller, Friedemann ^a,b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

grounded cognition; mismatch negativity; readiness potentials; semantic processing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SOUND; TEMPORAL CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FRONTAL LOBE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84965179195     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhw026     Document Type: Article

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