The Extent of the Literal develops a strikingly new approach to metaphor and polysemy in their relation to the conceptual structure. In a straightforward narrative style, the author …
LA Stowe, M Haverkort, F Zwarts - Lingua, 2005 - Elsevier
Functional neuroimaging, within 10 years, has produced evidence which leads us to question a number of the standard assumptions about the areas which are necessary and …
R Ouerchefani, N Ouerchefani, MRB Rejeb, D Le Gall - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
The specific contribution of focal damage of the prefrontal cortex and the cognitive mechanisms accounting for communicative-pragmatic disorders remains unclear. The …
Neurobiology of Language explores the study of language, a field that has seen tremendous progress in the last two decades. Key to this progress is the accelerating trend toward …
D Anaki, M Faust, S Kravetz - Neuropsychologia, 1998 - Elsevier
This study investigated semantic priming for literal (stinging-mosquito) and metaphoric (stinging-insult) associates presented to either the left or right visual fields (RVF/LVF) across …
Previous laterality studies have implicated the right hemisphere in the processing of metaphors, however it is not clear if this result is due to metaphoricity per se or another …
AR Braun, A Guillemin, L Hosey, M Varga - Brain, 2001 - academic.oup.com
In order to identify brain regions that play an essential role in the production of discourse, H215O-PET scans were acquired during spontaneous generation of autobiographical …
S Channon, S Crawford - Neuropsychologia, 2000 - Elsevier
Participants with unilateral anterior or posterior lesions were compared to a healthy group on a theory of mind-type task that involved explaining the words or actions of story …
Brain areas active in generating usual (typical) or unusual (atypical) noun–verb relations were examined using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Seven adults generated the …