Metaphor
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Differences in task demands influence the hemispheric lateralization and neural correlates of metaphor.

22 Sep 2009 This study investigated metaphor comprehension in the broader context of task-difference effects and manipulation of processing difficulty. We predicted that right hemisphere recruitment would show greater specificity to processing difficulty rather ... Read more...

The role of left and right hemispheres in the comprehension of idiomatic language: an electrical neuroimaging study.

13 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The specific role of the two cerebral hemispheres in processing idiomatic language is highly debated. While some studies show the involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG), other data support the crucial role of ... Read more...

The power of metaphors: images of holistic nurses.

30 Aug 2009 Metaphors are individualized representations of self as well as a vivid, expressive, everyday dialogical format. Holistic nursing is a personal philosophy that includes participating in the healing-caring process of self and others. Exploring ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Metaphor'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Differences in task demands influence the hemispheric lateralization and neural correlates of metaphor. 22 Sep 2009
• The role of left and right hemispheres in the comprehension of idiomatic language: an electrical neuroimaging study. 13 Sep 2009
• The power of metaphors: images of holistic nurses. 30 Aug 2009
• [The rhesus monkeys and the Fountain of Youth] 3 Aug 2009
• On: Can you push a camel through the eye of a needle? 30 Jul 2009
• Murdered father; dead father: revisiting the Oedipus complex. 30 Jul 2009
• On love, hate and knowledge. 30 Jul 2009
• Hot-headed is more than an expression: the embodied representation of anger in terms of heat. 30 Jul 2009
• Embodiment of abstract concepts: good and bad in right- and left-handers. 30 Jul 2009
• Perspective: Simulation and transformational change: the paradox of expertise. 29 Jun 2009
• Comprehending conventional and novel metaphors: an ERP study. 4 Jun 2009
• Effective communication techniques for nurse managers. 30 May 2009
• The skin house: a psychoanalytic reading of 3-Iron. 30 May 2009
• Cooperation and conflict in host-microbe relations. 29 Apr 2009
• Beauty and simplicity: the power of fine art and moral teaching on education in seventeenth-century Holland. 30 Mar 2009
• Theory as metaphor: clinical knowledge and its communication. 30 Mar 2009
• What the heart thinks, the tongue speaks: a study on depression and lexical choice. 30 Mar 2009
• The work-role transition of expert clinician to novice academic educator. 30 Mar 2009
• [The mechanism of sensing interestingness in metaphorical expressions] 30 Mar 2009
• Imaginative literature and Bion's intersubjective theory of thinking. 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Metaphor'

Definition: The application of a concept to that which it is not literally the same but which suggests a resemblance and comparison. Medical metaphors were widespread in ancient literature; the description of a sick body was often used by ancient writers to define a critical condition of the State, in which one corrupt part can ruin the entire system. (From Med Secoli Arte Sci, 1990;2(3):abstract 331)

Descriptor UI: D019365

Alternative terms: Metaphor; Metaphors;

Tree Number: K01.400.899.500; K01.752.798.500;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: IM; coord with object of comparison (IM)