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Publication details [#53366]

Mashal, N. and Miriam Faust. 2010. The Effects of Metaphoricity and Presentation Style on Brain Activation During Text Comprehension. Metaphor and Symbol 25 (1) : 19–33.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

influencing | metaphor, processing of | representational structure | text, comprehension of | text, processing of

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study employs functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore metaphor processing at text level, in healthy participants. It is suggested that presentation style influences brain activation, and that text processing may depend on a compound reciprocity between metaphoricity and text presentation style.