Individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often experience difficulty in
comprehending metaphors compared to individuals with typical development (TD) …

The use of nonliteral language in clinical assessment, especially testing the patients' ability
to interpret proverbs, has a long tradition in psychiatry. However, its diagnostic sensitivity …

The neural networks associated with processing related pairs of words forming literal, novel,
and conventional metaphorical expressions and unrelated pairs of words were studied in a …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

An increasing number of studies have investigated non-literal language, including
metaphors, idioms, metonymy, or irony, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

There is currently much interest in investigating the neural substrates of metaphor
processing. In particular, it has been suggested that the right hemisphere plays a special …

Prior neuroimaging studies on metaphor comprehension have tended to focus on the role of
the right hemisphere, without reaching consensus and leaving aside the functional …

In this study, we used a novel cognitive paradigm and event-related functional magnetic
resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) to investigate the neural substrates involved in processing …

OBJECTIVE:: A main feature of schizophrenic thought and language disturbance is
concretism, the inability to understand the figurative meaning of proverbs and metaphors …