Multi-modal biomarkers (eg, imaging, blood-based, physiological) of unique traumatic brain
injury (TBI) endophenotypes are necessary to guide the development of personalized and …

There has been a growing interest in understanding the complex cognitive processes that
give rise to human reasoning. This review focuses on the cognitive and neural …

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

A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across
22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the …

An increasing number of studies have investigated non-literal language, including
metaphors, idioms, metonymy, or irony, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

Previous studies have demonstrated that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can
be proficiently used to modulate attentional and cognitive functions. For instance, in the …

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

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 …

Quality of life and social integration are strongly influenced by the ability to communicate
and previous research has shown that pragmatic ability can be specifically impaired in …

We investigated how processing fluency and defamiliarization (the art of rendering familiar
notions unfamiliar) contribute to the affective and esthetic processing of reading in an event …