Semantic integration during metaphor comprehension in Asperger syndrome

Brain and Language

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 124-134

  Gold, Rinat ^a   Faust, Miriam ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asperger syndrome; Event related potentials; Metaphor comprehension; N400; Semantic integration

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; METAPHOR; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952553534     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.03.002     Document Type: Article

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