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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
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Brown, Barbara L; Leonard, Laurence B. – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Describes a study done to determine whether the degree of children's familiarity with component words was related to (1) their ability to produce productive patterns as opposed to associative and grouping patterns, and (2) their ability to use broader scope rather than lexically based patterns. (SED)
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Stages
Hartoonian, H. Michael – 1973
This paper presents a rationale for a disclosure approach to value analysis and describes the components of this approach, which involves student construction of value profiles of his own mythic thought, or mental framework, vis a vis a specified concept. The rationale is discussed in terms of the relationship between value study and mythic…
Descriptors: Classification, Concept Formation, Fundamental Concepts, Individual Differences