K Lundgren, H Brownell, C Cayer-Meade, J Milione… - Aphasiology, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Aims: This investigation sought to determine whether a structured intervention focused on improving use of semantic associations could improve patients' ability to provide oral …
H Brownell, K Lundgren, C Cayer-Meade, M Nichols… - Brain and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Methods We examined the scale properties of a new assessment tool based on open-ended verbal explanation, the Appropriateness of Metaphor Interpretation Scale (AMIS). The AMIS …
K Lundgren, H Brownell, S Roy, C Cayer-Meade - Brain and Language, 2006 - Elsevier
This intervention program addresses an important need in the clinical literature: tools for remediation of communication deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage …
BD MacQueen, M Pąchalska… - Acta …, 2004 - actaneuropsychologica.com
Introduction. Metaphors in the narrow sense are words or phrases that have a literal meaning (called the vehicle) conveying an intended reference to another semantic category …
Background While clinical diagnosis of mental health issues focuses on factual details represented by literal language (eg, the onset and process of the triggering event and …
The relative contributions of the left and right hemispheres to the processing of metaphoric language remains unresolved. Neuropsychological studies of brain-injured patients have …
N Klooster, M McQuire, M Grossman… - Neurobiology of …, 2020 - direct.mit.edu
Despite the ubiquity of metaphor in cognition and communication, it is absent from standard clinical assessments of language, and the neural systems that support metaphor processing …
GR Ianni, ER Cardillo, M McQuire… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Despite the prevalent and natural use of metaphor in everyday language, the neural basis of this powerful communication device remains poorly understood. Early studies of brain …
Figurative speech (eg, proverb, irony, metaphor, and idiom) has been reported to be particularly sensitive to measurement of abstract thinking in patients who suffer from …