Neuropsychological and Neurophysiological Correlates of Idiom Understanding: How many Hemispheres are Involved?

The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 368-385

  Cacciari, Cristina ^a   Papagno, Costanza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FMRI studies; Identity of linguistic strings; Idiomatic expressions; Idiomatic expressions, in everyday language; Neural architecture, and idiom comprehension; Neuropsychological, idiom understanding; Neuropsychological, neurophysiological correlates; Notion of level of conventionalization; RH hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886343882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118432501.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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