The role of the precuneus in metaphor comprehension: Evidence from an fMRI study in people with schizophrenia and healthy participants

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages

  Mashal, Nira ^a   Vishne, Tali ^b   Laor, Nathaniel ^b,c  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

FMRI; Language; Novel metaphors; Precuneus; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; IMAGERY; LITERATURE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PARIETAL CORTEX; PRECUNEUS; READING; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS;

EID: 84933674160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00818     Document Type: Article

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