Functional MRI of conventional and anomalous metaphors in Mandarin Chinese

This study looks at whether conventional and anomalous metaphors are processed in different locations in the brain while being read when compared with a literal condition in Mandarin Chinese. We find that conventional metaphors differ from the literal condition with a slight amount of increased acti...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Brain and language 2007-02, Vol.100 (2), p.163-171
Hauptverfasser:	Ahrens, Kathleen, Liu, Ho-Ling, Lee, Chia-Ying, Gong, Shu-Ping, Fang, Shin-Yi, Hsu, Yuan-Yu
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Anomalous metaphors Attention - physiology Brain Hemisphere Functions Brain Mapping Cerebral Cortex - physiology Comparative Analysis Comprehension Comprehension - physiology Conventional metaphors Decision Making - physiology Diagnostic Tests Dominance, Cerebral - physiology Female Figurative Language Frontal Lobe - physiology Functional MRI Graded salience hypothesis Humans Image Processing, Computer-Assisted Language Language Processing Linguistic Theory Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Mandarin Chinese Metaphor Novel metaphors Psycholinguistics Recruitment, Neurophysiological - physiology Semantics Sentences Temporal Lobe - physiology
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