Abstract：
:Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. In this study, we investigated the neural substrates involved in the comprehension of metaphor and simile using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate whether simile comprehension differs from metaphor comprehension or not. In the metaphor and simile sentence conditions, higher activation was seen in the left inferior frontal gyrus. This result suggests that the activation in both metaphor and simile conditions indicates similar patterns in the left frontal region. The results also suggest that similes elicit higher levels of activation in the medial frontal region which might be related to inference processes, whereas metaphors elicit more right-sided prefrontal activation which might be related to figurative language comprehension.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Shibata M,Toyomura A,Motoyama H,Itoh H,Kawabata Y,Abe Jdoi
10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.006subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-06-01 00:00:00pages
254-60issue
3eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(12)00058-2journal_volume
121pub_type
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