Thinking outside the Left Box: The Role of the Right Hemisphere in Novel Metaphor Comprehension

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 425-448

  Faust, Miriam ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

"portmanteau" expressions; Coarse semantic coding of RH; Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass; Lewis Carroll's use of semantic violations; Metaphor comprehension and RH; Novel metaphor comprehension; thinking outside the left box, and RH; Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

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EID: 84886333187     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch21     Document Type: Chapter

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