Comprehension of action negation involves inhibitory simulation

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Foroni, Francesco ^a   Semin, Gun R ^b,c  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Grounded cognition; Negation; Simulation of language

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTOR SYSTEM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; READING; SIMULATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; ZYGOMA; ZYGOMATIC MUSCLE;

EID: 85088184489     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00209     Document Type: Article

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