The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

In this review of 100 fMRI studies of speech comprehension and production, published in
2009, activation is reported for: prelexical speech perception in bilateral superior temporal …

Semantic cognition requires a combination of semantic representations and executive
control processes to direct activation in a task-and time-appropriate fashion [Jefferies, E., & …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

An extensive program of research in the past 2 decades has focused on the role of modal
sensory, motor, and affective brain systems in storing and retrieving concept knowledge …

A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across
22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the …

Neuroscience research has thoroughly studied how nonliteral language is processed during
metaphor comprehension. However, it is not clear how the brain actually creates nonliteral …

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

Experimental and theoretical studies have tried to gain insights into the involvement of the
Temporal Parietal Junction (TPJ) in a broad range of cognitive functions like memory …

Metaphors are fundamental to creative thought and expression. Newly coined metaphors
regularly infiltrate our collective vocabulary and gradually become familiar, but it is unclear …