Right hemisphere metaphor processing? Characterizing the lateralization of semantic processes

Schmidt, Gwen L.; DeBuse, Casey J.; Seger, Carol A.

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.03.002

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“…They attribute this right PFC functioning as increased monitoring as well as higher cognitive control for stringent monitoring for creative insightful solutions. Furthermore, right prefrontal activation has been observed for other creative problem solving tasks, such as processing unusual semantic relationships [Schmidt et al, 2007]. In an fMRI study which explored analogical reasoning, both the left and the right PFC were found to be significantly activated [Geake and Hansen, 2005].…”

Section: Prefrontal Activations Related To Solution Timementioning

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“Aha!”: The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions

Aziz‐Zadeh

Kaplan

Iacoboni

2008

Human Brain Mapping

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What are the neural correlates of insight solutions? To explore this question we asked participants to perform an anagram task while in the fMRI scanner. Previous research indicates that anagrams are unique in that they can yield both insight and search solutions in expert subjects. Using a single-trial fMRI paradigm, we utilized the anagram methodology to explore the neural correlates of insight versus search solutions. We used both reaction time measures and subjective reports to classify each trial as a search or insight solution. Data indicate that verbal insight solutions activate a distributed neural network that includes bilateral activation in the insula, the right prefrontal cortex, and the anterior cingulate. These areas are discussed with their possible role in evaluation and metacognition of insight solutions, as well as attention and monitoring during insight.

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Section: Prefrontal Activations Related To Solution Timementioning

confidence: 99%

“Aha!”: The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions

Aziz‐Zadeh

Kaplan

Iacoboni

2008

Human Brain Mapping

166

119

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“…Yet it would still owe an explanation about why some altered meanings are good candidates to form part of explicatures while others are not: what is it that makes some concepts accessible and others remote? In line with experimentalists (Schmidt et al 2007), one may think that speed is a matter of sheer reinforcement of some connections by means of repeated exposure, but there must be more than that:…”

Section: Metaphor In Relevance Theorymentioning

confidence: 96%

What is said by a metaphor

Manrique

Vicente

2013

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Contextualist theorists have recently defended the views (a) that metaphor-processing can be treated on a par with other meaning changes, such as narrowing or transfer, and (b) that metaphorical contents enter into "what is said" by an utterance. We do not dispute claim (a) but consider that claim (b) is problematic. Contextualist theorists seem to leave in the hands of context the explanation about why it is that some meaning changes are directly processed, and thus plausibly form part of "what is said", while some others are not. While granting the role of context in this respect, we contend that there are elements that play an instrumental role in providing direct access to the metaphorical content, namely, the conventionality of the expressions and the salience of the concepts involved. We will start by criticizing Recanati's and Relevance Theory's accounts of metaphor. Then we examine the claims of Carston's and Giora's twoprocess accounts that set the stage for a revision of the main elements involved, namely, the properties of conventionality and salience. Finally we examine a number of representative examples, explaining why some cases involve a direct access to the metaphorical content and others require an intermediate non-figurative interpretation.

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“…rehearsal-training) between single words (cf. the comments in Schmidt, DeBuse, & Seger, 2007). Other studies focused not on word pairs, but on larger units of language: phrases and sentences.…”

Section: Controlling Selected Qualities Of Metaphorical Stimulimentioning

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“…Another argument comes from experiments carried out using the divided visual field technique. For example, Schmidt et al (2007) have manipulated the degree of familiarity of a given metaphor by separating the stimuli presented to the participants into four categories on the basis of conventionalization. Their results confirm that activation patters observed during semantic processing are better explained with reference to the degree of familiarity/conventionalization, rather than to a direct opposition of metaphorical-literal (familiar metaphors were processed more quickly by the left hemisphere, while original and uncommon ones -by the right hemisphere).…”

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Processing Metaphors in the Elderly: Does Valence Matter?

Bartczak

2017

Psychology of Language and Communication

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Much evidence from theory and research points towards difficulties in processing metaphors by elderly people. These difficulties are usually associated with working memory and inhibitory control deficits observed in this age group, as these very functions play a crucial part in efficient metaphor processing. However, results of research on understanding metaphorical content by elderly people are inconclusive. The following article reviews studies showing that metaphor processing relies on a set of complex variables, which might explain the inconclusiveness of previous results. Though we acknowledge the role of interindividual factors (differences in cognitive functioning among the elderly), we focus on the properties of the metaphor stimuli themselves, especially those of conventionalization and valence, as they might influence the processing of verbal metaphors by people in older age groups.

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Right hemisphere metaphor processing? Characterizing the lateralization of semantic processes

Cited by 139 publications

References 34 publications

“Aha!”: The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions

“Aha!”: The neural correlates of verbal insight solutions

What is said by a metaphor

Processing Metaphors in the Elderly: Does Valence Matter?

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