The interpretation of proverbs has a long tradition in the assessment of abstract thinking,
particularly in schizophrenia. Although the usefulness of proverb interpretation as a …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

The use of nonliteral language in clinical assessment, especially testing the patients' ability
to interpret proverbs, has a long tradition in psychiatry. However, its diagnostic sensitivity …

Metaphoric language is used to express meaning that is otherwise difficult to conceptualize
elegantly. Beyond semantic analysis, understanding the figurative meaning of a metaphor …

There is currently much interest in investigating the neural substrates of metaphor
processing. In particular, it has been suggested that the right hemisphere plays a special …

Spreen and Risser present a comprehensive, critical review of available methods for the
assessment of aphasia and related disorders in adults and children. The authors explore …

The neural networks associated with processing metaphorical word meanings were
investigated in normal adults using fMRI. Subjects listened to sets of three adjectives and …

The role of the right hemisphere (RH) in metaphor comprehension is still controversial.
Numerous neuroimaging studies have found that conventionality, sentential context, and …

The bulk of the research on the neural organization of metaphor comprehension has
focused on nominal metaphors and the metaphoric relationships between word pairs. By …

Background Right hemisphere communication disorders are neither consistently labelled
nor adequately defined. Labels associated with right hemisphere brain damage (RHD) are …