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 …

How do we learn to produce and comprehend non-literal language? Competing theories
have only partially accounted for the variety of language comprehension evoked in …

A labor of love and enthusiasm as well as deep scientific knowledge, Right Hand, Left Hand
takes the reader on a trip through history, around the world, and into the cosmos, to explore …

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 …

This paper considers two post-Gricean attempts to provide an explanatory account of verbal
irony. The first treats irony as an echoic use of language in which the speaker tacitly …

Neuroscience research has thoroughly studied how nonliteral language is processed during
metaphor comprehension. However, it is not clear how the brain actually creates nonliteral …

While individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are typically impaired in interpreting
the communicative intent of others, little is known about the neural bases of higher-level …

Instead of postulating the priority of literal meaning (see eg, Grice, 1975; Searle, 1979), the
present paper adduces evidence in support of the priority of salient meanings (for a similar …