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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