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Conventional metaphors in longer passages evoke affective brain response

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Conventional metaphors in longer passages evoke affective brain response. / Citron, Francesca Maria Marina; Güsten, Jeremie; Michaelis, Nora et al.
In: NeuroImage, Vol. 139, 29.06.2016, p. 218-230.

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Citron FMM, Güsten J, Michaelis N, Goldberg AE. Conventional metaphors in longer passages evoke affective brain response. NeuroImage. 2016 Jun 29;139:218-230. Epub 2016 Jun 22. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2016.06.020

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Citron, Francesca Maria Marina ; Güsten, Jeremie ; Michaelis, Nora et al. / Conventional metaphors in longer passages evoke affective brain response. In: NeuroImage. 2016 ; Vol. 139. pp. 218-230.

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title = "Conventional metaphors in longer passages evoke affective brain response",
abstract = "Conventional metaphorical sentences such as She{\textquoteright}s a sweet child have been found to elicit greater amygdala activation than matched literal sentences (e.g., She{\textquoteright}s a kind child). In the present fMRI study, this finding is strengthened and extended with naturalistic stimuli involving longer passages and a range of conventional metaphors. In particular, a greater number of activation peaks (four) were found in the bilateral amygdala when passages containing conventional metaphors were read than when their matched literal versions were read (a single peak); while the direct contrast between metaphorical and literal passages did not show significant amygdala activation, parametric analysis revealed that BOLD signal changes in the left amygdala correlated with an increase in metaphoricity ratings across all stories. Moreover, while a measure of complexity was positively correlated with an increase in activation of a broad bilateral network mainly involving the temporal lobes, complexity was not predictive of amygdala activity. Thus, the results suggest that amygdala activation is not simply a result of stronger overall activity related to language comprehension, but is more specific to the processing of metaphorical language.",
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AU - Güsten, Jeremie

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N2 - Conventional metaphorical sentences such as She’s a sweet child have been found to elicit greater amygdala activation than matched literal sentences (e.g., She’s a kind child). In the present fMRI study, this finding is strengthened and extended with naturalistic stimuli involving longer passages and a range of conventional metaphors. In particular, a greater number of activation peaks (four) were found in the bilateral amygdala when passages containing conventional metaphors were read than when their matched literal versions were read (a single peak); while the direct contrast between metaphorical and literal passages did not show significant amygdala activation, parametric analysis revealed that BOLD signal changes in the left amygdala correlated with an increase in metaphoricity ratings across all stories. Moreover, while a measure of complexity was positively correlated with an increase in activation of a broad bilateral network mainly involving the temporal lobes, complexity was not predictive of amygdala activity. Thus, the results suggest that amygdala activation is not simply a result of stronger overall activity related to language comprehension, but is more specific to the processing of metaphorical language.

AB - Conventional metaphorical sentences such as She’s a sweet child have been found to elicit greater amygdala activation than matched literal sentences (e.g., She’s a kind child). In the present fMRI study, this finding is strengthened and extended with naturalistic stimuli involving longer passages and a range of conventional metaphors. In particular, a greater number of activation peaks (four) were found in the bilateral amygdala when passages containing conventional metaphors were read than when their matched literal versions were read (a single peak); while the direct contrast between metaphorical and literal passages did not show significant amygdala activation, parametric analysis revealed that BOLD signal changes in the left amygdala correlated with an increase in metaphoricity ratings across all stories. Moreover, while a measure of complexity was positively correlated with an increase in activation of a broad bilateral network mainly involving the temporal lobes, complexity was not predictive of amygdala activity. Thus, the results suggest that amygdala activation is not simply a result of stronger overall activity related to language comprehension, but is more specific to the processing of metaphorical language.

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KW - fMRI

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