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Does simile comprehension differ from metaphor comprehension? A functional MRI study
2012
Brain and Language
Since Aristotle, people have believed that metaphors and similes express the same type of figurative meaning, despite the fact that they are expressed with different sentence patterns. In contrast, recent psycholinguistic models have suggested that metaphors and similes may promote different comprehension processes. In this study, we investigated the neural substrates involved in the comprehension of metaphor and simile using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate whether
doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2012.03.006
pmid:22534570
fatcat:hix3afqrcrau7jqzwqiv2xhvta