The influence of context on hemispheric recruitment during metaphor processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3586-3597

  Diaz, Michele T ^a   Hogstrom, Larson J ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; METAPHOR PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; OXYGEN; SEMANTICS; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053546200     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00053     Document Type: Article

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