Positively-valenced stimuli facilitate creative novel metaphoric processes by enhancing medial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) activation

A metaphor is a figure of speech in which a subject is symbolic of another unrelated object. In the present study, we examined neural patterns associated with both novel unfamiliar and conventional familiar metaphoric processing, and how these patterns are modulated by affective valence. Prior to...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Karuna eSubramaniam, Mark eBeeman, Miriam eFaust, Nira eMashal
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-04-01
Serie:Frontiers in Psychology
Ämnen:
creativity
fMRI
Medial prefrontal cortex
affective valence
novel metaphors
conventional metaphors
Länkar:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00211/full
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