Abstract:
:Although proverb tests are commonly used in the mental status examination surprisingly little is known about either normal comprehension or the interpretation of proverbial expressions. Current proverbs tests have conceptual and linguistic shortcomings, and few studies have been done to investigate the specific effects of neurological and psychiatric disorders on the interpretation of proverbs. Although frontal lobes have traditionally been impugned in patients who are "concrete", recent studies targeting deficient comprehension of non literal language (e.g. proverbs, idioms, speech formulas, and indirect requests) point to an important role of the right hemisphere (RH). Research describing responses of psychiatrically and neurologically classified groups to tests of proverb and idiom usage is needed to clarify details of aberrant processing of nonliteral meanings. Meanwhile, the proverb test, drawing on diverse cognitive skills, is a nonspecific but sensitive probe of mental status.
journal_name
Behav Neuroljournal_title
Behavioural neurologyauthors
Van Lancker Ddoi
10.3233/BEN-1990-3304subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1990-01-01 00:00:00pages
169-87issue
3eissn
0953-4180issn
1875-8584pii
PKU0446101817854journal_volume
3pub_type
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