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

The present study examined the role of the left (LH) and right (RH) cerebral hemispheres in
processing alternative meanings of idiomatic sentences. We conducted two experiments …

Publisher Summary This chapter highlights some key neuroimaging studies of discourse
processing. Some of the components of discourse processing revealed by neuroimaging …

Six experiments explored hemispheric memory differences in a patient who had undergone
complete corpus callosum resection The right hemisphere was better able than the left to …

Two divided visual field priming experiments examined cerebral asymmetries for
understanding metaphors varying in sentence constraint. Experiment 1 investigated …

Understanding a joke relies on semantic, mnemonic, inferential, and emotional contributions
from multiple brain areas. Anatomically constrained magnetoencephalography (aMEG) …

To understand the architecture of human language, it is critical to examine diverse
languages; yet most cognitive neuroscience research has focused on a handful of primarily …

Describes research that implies that the left and right hemispheres access meaning in
different ways when the symbol is a single written word. These findings suggest that in the …

Normal comprehension skill is linked with the proficiency of a suppression mechanism,
which functions to dampen mental activation that becomes irrelevant or inappropriate to a …

In addition to understanding individual word meanings and processing the syntactic and
semantic dependencies among those words within a sentence, language comprehension …