Abstract:
:We investigated processing of metaphoric sentences using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Seventeen healthy subjects (6 female, 11 male) read 60 novel short German sentence pairs with either metaphoric or literal meaning and performed two different tasks: judging the metaphoric content and judging whether the sentence has a positive or negative connotation. Laterality indices for 8 regions of interest were calculated: Inferior frontal gyrus (opercular part and triangular part), superior, middle, and inferior temporal gyrus, precuneus, temporal pole, and hippocampus. A left lateralised network was activated with no significant differences in laterality between the two tasks. The lowest degree of laterality was found in the temporal pole. Other factors than metaphoricity per se might trigger right hemisphere recruitment. Results are discussed in the context of lesion and hemifield studies.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Rapp AM,Leube DT,Erb M,Grodd W,Kircher TTdoi
10.1016/j.bandl.2006.04.004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-02-01 00:00:00pages
142-9issue
2eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(06)00071-Xjournal_volume
100pub_type
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