The role of the right hemisphere in processing nonsalient metaphorical meanings: Application of Principal Components Analysis to fMRI data

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 43, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2084-2100

  Mashal, N ^a,c   Faust, M ^a   Hendler, T ^b,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

fMRI; Metaphors; PCA; Right hemisphere; Salience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LITERATURE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; STATISTICS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26944460811     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.03.019     Document Type: Article

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