Bilateral Processing and Affect in Creative Language Comprehension

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 317-341

  Mirous, Heather J ^a   Beeman, Mark ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Coping with higher level processing; Creating some new meaning; Language behaviors; Mood modulation, of creative comprehension; Relatively coarser semantic coding; RH role, in verbal creativity; Semantic integration; Verbal creativity, novel metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886334926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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