Selective Metaphor Impairments After Left, Not Right, Hemisphere Injury

Selective Metaphor Impairments After Left, Not Right, Hemisphere Injury

The relative contributions of the left and right hemispheres to the processing of metaphoric language remains unresolved. Neuropsychological studies of brain-injured patients have motivated the hypothesis that the right hemisphere plays a critical role in understanding metaphors. However, the data a...

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Main Authors: Eileen R. Cardillo, Marguerite McQuire, Anjan Chatterjee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
metaphor
aphasia
focal lesion patients
figurative language
case study
sentence comprehension
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02308/full

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