Metaphors and verbal creativity: The role of the right hemisphere

Laterality

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 602-614

  Gold, Rinat ^a   Faust, Miriam ^a   Ben Artzi, Elisheva ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Divided visual field; Metaphors; Remote Associations Test; Right hemisphere; Verbal creativity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CREATIVITY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LITERATURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CREATIVITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; METAPHOR; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL FIELDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866449881     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: 14640678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2011.599936     Document Type: Article

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