Motor activation in literal and non-literal sentences: Does time matter?

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Cacciari, Cristina ^a   Pesciarelli, Francesca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abstract meaning; Motion verbs; Motor activation; Non literal language

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FINGER; FOOT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MOTION; SENSIBILITY;

EID: 84970028707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00202     Document Type: Article

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