Brain correlates of discourse processing: An fMRI investigation of irony and conventional metaphor comprehension

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2348-2359

  Eviatar, Zohar ^a   Just, Marcel Adam ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Figurative language; fMRI; Irony; Metaphor; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; OXYGEN; READING;

EID: 33745935629     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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