Cerebral hemispheric asymmetries in processing lexical metaphors

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 353-362

  Anaki, David ^a   Faust, Miriam ^a   Kravetz, Shlomo ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Laterality; Lexical decision; Metaphoric and literal meaning; Semantic priming; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION; CUES; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHOR; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0032051754     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00110-3     Document Type: Article

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