Functional links between motor and language systems
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit · Medical Research Council · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was applied to motor areas in the left language-dominant hemisphere while right-handed human subjects made lexical decisions on words related to actions. Response times to words referring to leg actions (e.g. kick) were compared with those to words referring to movements involving the arms and hands (e.g. pick). TMS of hand and leg areas influenced the processing of arm and leg words differentially, as documented by a significant interaction of the factors Stimulation site and Word category. Arm area TMS led to faster arm than leg word responses and the reverse effect, faster lexical decisions on leg than arm words, was present when TMS was applied to leg areas.…
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- 27.44
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- 100%
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4Topics & keywords
- Transcranial magnetic stimulation
- Motor area
- Psychology
- Action (physics)
- Lateralization of brain function
- Motor system
- Motor control
- Cognitive psychology
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