Cerebral Cortex doi:10.1093/cercor/bhr081 Typical Neural Representations of Action Verbs Develop without Vision
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M. Bedny, A. Caramazza, A. Pascual-Leone and R. Saxe Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA, Department of Psychology, Harvard University, William James Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA and Center for Mind/Brain Sciences, University of Trento, via Belenzani, 12 I-38122 Trento, Italy
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