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Looking at the Brains behind Figurative Language--A Quantitative Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies on Metaphor, Idiom, and Irony Processing
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Bohrn, Isabel C.; Altmann, Ulrike; Jacobs, Arthur M. – Neuropsychologia, 2012
A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across 22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the differences in neural correlates of figurative and literal language processing, and to investigate the role of the right hemisphere (RH) in figurative language processing.…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Figurative Language, Semantics, Negative Attitudes
The Role of the Striatum in Sentence Processing: Evidence from a Priming Study in Early Stages of Huntington's Disease
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Teichmann, Marc; Dupoux, Emmanuel; Cesaro, Pierre; Bachoud-Levi, Anne-Catherine – Neuropsychologia, 2008
The role of sub-cortical structures such as the striatum in language remains a controversial issue. Based on linguistic claims that language processing implies both recovery of lexical information and application of combinatorial rules it has been shown that striatal damaged patients have difficulties applying conjugation rules while lexical…
Descriptors: Sentences, Language Processing, Brain, Neurological Organization