Where in the brain is nonliteral language? A coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 600-610

  Rapp, Alexander M ^a   Mutschler, Dorothee E ^a,b   Erb, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b MARIENHOSPITAL STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Figurative; Inferior frontal gyrus; Lateralisation; Metaphor; Middle temporal gyrus; Motor; Pragmatic; Right hemisphere; Semantic; Sentence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN FUNCTION; CEREBELLUM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LANGUAGE; LEFT TEMPORAL GYRUS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; NEUROIMAGING; NONLITERAL LANGUAGE; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LITERATURE BASED DISCOVERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NERVE NET; PERIODICALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84865057272     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.06.022     Document Type: Article

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