The Repetition Paradigm: Enhancement of novel metaphors and suppression of conventional metaphors in the left inferior parietal lobe

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2705-2719

  Subramaniam, Karuna ^a   Faust, Miriam ^b   Beeman, Mark ^c   Mashal, Nira ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conventionalization; Novel metaphors; Repetition enhancement; Repetition suppression; Right hemisphere

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LITERATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL GYRUS; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; SUPRAMARGINAL GYRUS;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; METAPHOR; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; REPETITION PRIMING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84865551148     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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