The role of ambiguity in idiom comprehension: The case of a patient with a reversed concreteness effect

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 631-643

  Papagno, Costanza ^a   Cacciari, Cristina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Idioms; Reversed concreteness effect; Semantic ambiguity; Temporal lobes

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE REPORT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; IDIOM; ITALY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; TEMPORAL GYRUS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77955561078     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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