The role of the right cerebral hemisphere in processing novel metaphoric expressions taken from poetry: A divided visual field study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 860-870

  Faust, M ^a   Mashal, N ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hemispheres; Metaphors; Poetry; Salience; Semantic processing; Visual fields

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LITERATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL FIELD; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; METAPHOR; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33845679068     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.08.010     Document Type: Article

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