Neural correlates of irony comprehension: The role of schizotypal personality traits

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-12

  Rapp, A M ^a,b   Mutschler, D E ^a   Wild, B ^a   Erb, M ^b   Lengsfeld, I ^a   Saur, R ^a   Grodd, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b the CNS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Irony; Language; Middle temporal gyrus; Nonliteral; Sarcasm; Schizotypal; Schizotypy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PERSONALITY TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649271462     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.11.007     Document Type: Article

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