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. 2014 Apr 21;111(18):E1918–E1923. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1323158111

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1.

Semantically specific activation of somatotopically organized areas in the left motor cortex in response to different action words. (Lower Center) Motor areas with significantly increased for foot (yellow), hand (red), and mouth (blue) words. (Upper and Right) Dynamics of MNE source amplitudes of neuromagnetic mismatch response (mean over ROI) in foot, hand, and face ROIs suggested a characteristic increase for both nouns and verbs of the three semantic categories that near-instantaneously followed the word disambiguation point, was specific to the referential body semantics of each stimulus and took place early on after word disambiguation; vertical bars indicate significant differences between semantic categories. (Lower Left) Comparison of hand-movement source activation with that elicited by listening to hand-related words. Note almost identical premotor activity but not the motor cortex one.