Objective: To improve oral interpretation of metaphors by patients with traumatic brain injury
(TBI). Design: Both single subject experimental design and group analysis. Setting: Patients' …

Aims: This investigation sought to determine whether a structured intervention focused on
improving use of semantic associations could improve patients' ability to provide oral …

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 …

This intervention program addresses an important need in the clinical literature: tools for
remediation of communication deficits associated with right hemisphere brain damage …

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 …

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 …

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 …