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 …

People with schizophrenia often exhibit difficulties to comprehend figurative expressions,
such as irony, proverbs, metaphors and idioms, with a general proneness to neglect the …

The neural mechanisms underlying the processing of conventional and novel conceptual
metaphorical sentences were examined with event-related potentials (ERPs). Conventional …

This work analyzes the conceptual metaphors of depression in a corpus of 23 blogs written
in Catalan by people suffering major depressive disorder. Its main aim was comparative, in …

The processing of unfamiliar metaphors was examined using event related potentials
(ERPs). We compared the patterns of brain electrical activity elicited by processing two-word …

OBJECTIVE:: A main feature of schizophrenic thought and language disturbance is
concretism, the inability to understand the figurative meaning of proverbs and metaphors …

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the time-course of processing
metaphorical and literal sentences in the brain. ERPs were measured to sentence-final …

Brain imaging studies have lead to conflicting findings regarding the involvement of the right
hemisphere (RH) in metaphor comprehension. Some report more relative RH activation …

Background Metaphors, mainly proverbs and idiomatic expressions of ordinary life are
commonly used as a model for concretism. Previous studies have shown impaired metaphor …

Comprehension of conventional and novel metaphors involves traditional language-related
cortical regions as well as non-language related regions. While semantic processing is …