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Grasping Ideas with the Motor System: Semantic Somatotopy in Idiom Comprehension

Single words and sentences referring to bodily actions activate the motor cortex. However, this semantic grounding of concrete language does not address the critical question whether the sensory–motor system contributes to the processing of abstract meaning and thought. We examined functional magnet...

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Autores principales: Boulenger, Véronique, Hauk, Olaf, Pulvermüller, Friedemann
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705699/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19068489
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhn217