From novel to familiar: Tuning the brain for metaphors

NeuroImage

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 3212-3221

  Cardillo, Eileen R ^a   Watson, Christine E ^a   Schmidt, Gwenda L ^b   Kranjec, Alexander ^c   Chatterjee, Anjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOPE COLLEGE   (United States)

^c DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Career of metaphor; Familiarity; Figurative language; FMRI; Novelty; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LITERATURE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAPHOR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855167886     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.11.079     Document Type: Article

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