Dynamics of hemispheric activity during metaphor comprehension: Electrophysiological measures

NeuroImage

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 222-231

  Arzouan, Yossi ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a   Faust, Miriam ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NEUROIMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; JUDGMENT; METAPHOR; PROBLEM SOLVING; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34247253241     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.02.015     Document Type: Article

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