Brain responses mediating idiom comprehension: Gender and hemispheric differences

Brain Research

Volumn 1467, Issue , 2012, Pages 18-26

  Kana, Rajesh K ^a   Murdaugh, Donna L ^a   Wolfe, Kelly R ^a   Kumar, Sandhya L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Figurative language; fMRI; Gender; Idiom; Salience

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LANGUAGE; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

BRAIN; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863989417     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.05.031     Document Type: Article

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