Does simile comprehension differ from metaphor comprehension? A functional MRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 254-260

  Shibata, Midori ^a   Toyomura, Akira ^a   Motoyama, Hiroki ^a   Itoh, Hiroaki ^a   Kawabata, Yasuhiro ^a   Abe, Jun ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

FMRI; Inferior frontal gyrus; Literal sentence; Metaphor; Simile

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; METAPHOR COMPREHENSION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SIMILE COMPREHENSION;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAPHOR; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84860453705     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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