The Effects of Working Memory Capacity in Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Mandarin–English Bilinguals’ Minds: An fMRI Study

The Effects of Working Memory Capacity in Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Mandarin–English Bilinguals’ Minds: An fMRI Study

This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in metaphoric and metonymic processing in Mandarin–English bilinguals’ minds. It also explored the neural correlations between metaphor and metonymy computations. We adopted an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI...

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Main Authors: Chia-Hsin Yin, Fan-Pei Gloria Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-05-01
Series:Brain Sciences
Subjects:
metaphor
metonymy
working memory
vocabulary
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/12/5/633

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