Open AccessWhat’s left for balanced bilinguals? Language proficiency and item familiarity affect left-hemisphere specialization in metaphor processing.
Author(s) -
Dorit Segal,
Tamar H. Gollan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
neuropsychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.13
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1931-1559
pISSN - 0894-4105
DOI - 10.1037/neu0000467
Subject(s) - psychology , lateralization of brain function , left and right , metaphor , cognitive psychology , neuroscience of multilingualism , cognition , right hemisphere , visual field , dominance (genetics) , linguistics , philosophy , biochemistry , chemistry , structural engineering , neuroscience , engineering , gene
To characterize the hemispheric processing of metaphors in bilinguals compared with monolinguals and to determine the role of language proficiency in hemispheric lateralization.
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