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Knapp, Heather Patterson; Corina, David P. – Brain and Language, 2010
Language is proposed to have developed atop the human analog of the macaque mirror neuron system for action perception and production [Arbib M.A. 2005. From monkey-like action recognition to human language: An evolutionary framework for neurolinguistics (with commentaries and author's response). "Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28", 105-167; Arbib…
Descriptors: Neurolinguistics, Sign Language, Deafness, Evolution
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Stringaris, Argyris K.; Medford, Nicholas C.; Giampietro, Vincent; Brammer, Michael J.; David, Anthony S. – Brain and Language, 2007
In this study, we used a novel cognitive paradigm and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) to investigate the neural substrates involved in processing three different types of sentences. Participants read either metaphoric ("Some surgeons are butchers"), literal ("Some surgeons are fathers"), or non-meaningful sentences…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Lateral Dominance, Neuropsychology