Differences in task demands influence the hemispheric lateralization and neural correlates of metaphor

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 114-124

  Yang, Fanpei Gloria ^a   Edens, Jennifer ^a   Simpson, Claire ^a   Krawczyk, Daniel C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Language; Left inferior frontal gyrus; Processing difficulty; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; PATIENT SELECTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70350680425     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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