Novel Metaphors Appear Anomalous at Least Momentarily: Evidence from N400

Tartter, Vivien C.; Gomes, Hilary; Dubrovsky, Boris; Molholm, Sophie; Stewart, Rosemarie Vala

doi:10.1006/brln.2001.2610

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“…Other experiments replicate these results (cf. (De Grauwe, Swain, Holcomb, Ditman, & Kuperberg, 2010;Lai, Curran, & Menn, 2009;Schneider et al, 2014;Tartter, Gomes, Dubrovsk, & Molholm, 2002) so this graded N400 metaphor effect seems to be further confirmed.…”

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Brain processing of visual metaphors: An electrophysiological study

Ortiz

Murcia

Fernández

2017

Brain and Cognition

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Brain processing of visual metaphors: An electrophysiological study

Ortiz

Murcia

Fernández

2017

Brain and Cognition

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“…Since the N400 has been observed to be associated with semantic incongruity in literal sentence comprehension, Pynte and colleagues proposed that metaphoric meanings are incongruent meanings in contrast to common literal meanings. Since then, ERP studies on metaphors have compared metaphors with incongruent conditions and found that incongruent stimuli elicited greater N400 amplitudes than metaphors (Arzouan et al, 2007;Tartter, Gomes, Dubrovsky, Molholm, & Stewart, 2002). The other commonly used paradigm for metaphor comprehension is Stimulus1-Stimulus2 (S1-S2), a sentence to word matching paradigm.…”

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Contextual effects on conceptual blending in metaphors: An event-related potential study

Yang

Bradley²,

Huq³

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Journal of Neurolinguistics

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“…With regard to figurative language comprehension, N400 effects were often seen in response to metaphors (Coulson & Van Petten, 2002, 2007Tartter, Gomes, Dubrovsky, Molholm, & Stewart, 2002;Pynte, Besson, Robichon, & Poli, 1996), or proverbs and idioms (Ferretti, Schwint, & Katz, 2007;Laurent, Denhieres, Passerieux, Iakimova, & Hardy-Bayle, 2006). Cornejo et al (2007) found an N400-like component for irony, which depended on the interpretative strategy applied.…”

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Isn't It Ironic? An Electrophysiological Exploration of Figurative Language Processing

Regel¹,

Gunter²,

Friederici³

2011

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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Abstract■ Although the neurocognitive processes underlying the comprehension of figurative language, especially metaphors and idioms, have been studied extensively, less is known about the processing of irony. In two experiments using event-related brain potentials (ERPs), we examined the types of cognitive processes involved in the comprehension of ironic and literal sentences and their relative time course. The experiments varied in modality (auditory, visual), task demands (comprehension task vs. passive reading), and probability of stimulus occurrence. ERPs consistently revealed a large late positivity (i.e., P600 component) in the absence of an N400 component for irony compared to equivalent literal sentences independent of modality. This P600 was shown to be unaffected by the factors task demands and probability of occurrence. Taken together, the findings suggest that the observed P600 is related to irony processing, and might be a reflection of pragmatic interpretation processes. During the comprehension of irony, no semantic integration difficulty arises (absence of N400), but late inferential processes appear to be necessary for understanding ironic meanings (presence of P600). This finding calls for a revision of current models of figurative language processing. ■

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Novel Metaphors Appear Anomalous at Least Momentarily: Evidence from N400

Cited by 86 publications

References 20 publications

Brain processing of visual metaphors: An electrophysiological study

Brain processing of visual metaphors: An electrophysiological study

Contextual effects on conceptual blending in metaphors: An event-related potential study

Isn't It Ironic? An Electrophysiological Exploration of Figurative Language Processing

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