Figurative Language Processing in Healthy Controls and Patients with Traumatic Brain Imaging

Abstract

?Figurative Language Processing in Healthy Controls and Patients with Traumatic Brain Imaging Fan-Pei Gloria Yang1 1Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan: The talk will introduce theories and findings about figurative language processing in cognitive neuroscience.? The talk will discuss a series of experiments that manipulated different tasks to study the hemispheric lateralization of language processing. Then the talk will compare the activation difference between controls and patients in relation to frontal disconnectivity. ?