Literal, fictive and metaphorical motion sentences preserve the motion component of the verb: A TMS study

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 149-157

  Cacciari, C ^a   Bolognini, N ^b   Senna, I ^b   Pellicciari, M C ^c   Miniussi, C ^c,d   Papagno, C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fictive motion; Idiom; Metaphor; Motion verb; Motor evoked potentials; TMS

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FICTIVE MOTION SENTENCE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; LITERAL MOTION SENTENCE; LITERATURE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; METAPHOR; MOTION; MOTOR CORTEX; SEMANTICS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054098362     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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