Neural correlates of metonymy resolution

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 196-205

  Rapp, Alexander M ^a   Erb, Michael ^a   Grodd, Wolfgang ^b   Bartels, Mathias ^a   Markert, Katja ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Figurative; Graded salience hypothesis; Inferior frontal gyrus; Language lateralisation; Metaphor; Metonymy; Middle temporal gyrus; Nonliteral; Right hemisphere; World knowledge

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; METONYMY RESOLUTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONEME; READING; SEMANTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 80054091094     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.07.004     Document Type: Article

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