Neural correlates of combinatorial semantic processing of literal and figurative noun noun compound words

NeuroImage

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1432-1442

  Forgács, Bálint ^a,b   Bohrn, Isabel ^b   Baudewig, Jürgen ^b   Hofmann, Markus J ^b   Pléh, Csaba ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coarse semantic coding; FMRI; LIFG; Metaphor; Right hemisphere; Semantic distance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL LOBE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; TEMPOROPARIETAL REGION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866182032     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.07.029     Document Type: Article

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