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Direct linkHuang, Chih-Ying; Lee, Chia-Ying; Huang, Hsu-Wen; Chou, Chia-Ju – Brain and Language, 2011
The current study manipulated the visual field and the number of senses of the first character in Chinese disyllabic compounds to investigate how the related senses (polysemy) of the constituted character in the compounds were represented and processed in the two hemispheres. The ERP results in experiment 1 revealed crossover patterns in the left…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Semantics, Figurative Language, Chinese
Cacciari, C.; Bolognini, N.; Senna, I.; Pellicciari, M. C.; Miniussi, C.; Papagno, C. – Brain and Language, 2011
We used Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) to assess whether reading literal, non-literal (i.e., metaphorical, idiomatic) and fictive motion sentences modulates the activity of the motor system. Sentences were divided into three segments visually presented one at a time: the noun phrase, the verb and the final part of the sentence. Single…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Nouns, Figurative Language
Rapp, Alexander M.; Leube, Dirk T.; Erb, Michael; Grodd, Wolfgang; Kircher, Tilo T. J. – Brain and Language, 2007
We investigated processing of metaphoric sentences using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Seventeen healthy subjects (6 female, 11 male) read 60 novel short German sentence pairs with either metaphoric or literal meaning and performed two different tasks: judging the metaphoric content and judging whether the sentence…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Sentences, Reading Difficulties, Diagnostic Tests
