Neural mechanisms involved in the comprehension of metaphoric and literal sentences: An fMRI study

Brain Research

Volumn 1166, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 92-102

  Shibata, Midori ^a   Abe, Jun ichi ^a   Terao, Atsushi ^a   Miyamoto, Tamaki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Japanese; Left inferior frontal cortex; Literal comprehension; Medial frontal cortex; Metaphor comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547952796     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.06.040     Document Type: Article

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