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It also accords with current ideas that see language as an extension of gestural control with a common syntactical structure.
“but also with current ideas that see language as an extension of gestural control (Arbib, 2005; Gentilucci and Corballis, 2006) with a common syntactical structure (Pulvermüller, 2014; Boeckx and Fujita, 2014).”
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“…function of consciousness [similarly, the flexible response mechanism of Earl (2014)], but also with current ideas that see language as an extension of gestural control (Arbib, 2005; Gentilucci and Corballis, 2006) with a common syntactical structure (Pulvermüller, 2014; Boeckx and Fujita, 2014).”
- Authors
- Pulvermüller, F.
- Venue
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-05
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 219-220
- ISSN
- 1364-6613 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1986837166
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 3
- FWCI
- 2.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J004561/1)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Keywords
- center embedding, recursion, hierarchy, everyday action, apraxia, dementia, action schemas, language as action, speech acts, cognitive linguistics, embodied cognition, embodied language, embodied semantics
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Humans, Language, Psycholinguistics
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