Big words, halved brains and small worlds: Complex brain networks of figurative language comprehension

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Arzouan, Yossi ^a,b   Solomon, Sorin ^b   Faust, Miriam ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE;

EID: 79955693439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019345     Document Type: Article

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