The role of left and right hemispheres in the comprehension of idiomatic language: An electrical neuroimaging study

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages 116-

  Proverbio, Alice M ^a   Crotti, Nicola ^a   Zani, Alberto ^b   Adorni, Roberta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; PROBABILITY; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TEST; LITERATURE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; METAPHOR; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 70349768611     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-10-116     Document Type: Article

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