Creating metaphors: The neural basis of figurative language production

NeuroImage

Volumn 90, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-106

  Benedek, Mathias ^a   Beaty, Roger ^b   Jauk, Emanuel ^a   Koschutnig, Karl ^a   Fink, Andreas ^a   Silvia, Paul J ^b   Dunst, Beate ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Creativity; FMRI; Language production; Mental simulation; Metaphor

Indexed keywords

CREATIVITY; FMRI; LANGUAGE PRODUCTION; MENTAL SIMULATION; METAPHOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METAPHOR; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84893531410     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.12.046     Document Type: Article

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