Figurative Language in Aphasic and Health Participants

失语症和健康参与者的比喻语言

• 批准号: 8501949
• 负责人: Anjan K Chatterjee
• 金额: $ 34万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8501949
• 关键词: Accounting; Adopted; Affect; Agreement; Attention; Biological; Brain; Brain Diseases; Brain Injuries; Brain region; Clinical Research; Communication; Communication impairment; Competence; Comprehension; Dimensions; Disease; Event; Familiarity; Frequencies; Health; Human; Individual; Inferior frontal gyrus; Investigation; Judgment; Language; Language Disorders; Left; Length; Literature; Metaphor; Methods; Motor; Nervous System Trauma; Participant; Patients; Process; Property; Reaction Time; Recovery; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Semantics; Sensory; Stimulus; Stroke; Structure; Structure of inferior temporal gyrus; Sum; Testing; Thinking; Time; Visual Motion; abstracting; aphasic; base; brain behavior; cognitive neuroscience; design; flexibility; neuroimaging; novel; phonology; public health relevance; relating to nervous system; syntax; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is widespread agreement that figurative language fundamentally organizes how humans think and communicate. Despite the importance of figurative language, we know little about its neural underpinnings and even less about the effects of brain damage on its use. Disorders of communication profoundly affect the lives of patients as seen with deficits in phonology, semantics, and even discourse. However, we do not know very much about the breakdown in comprehension of figurative language. We hypothesize that even when individuals make substantial recoveries in language deficits following brain damage they may continue to have profound problems with understanding non-literal language. We aim to examine metaphors, a critical form of figurative language, in functional neuroimaging and patient-based studies. To test hypothesis about the neural bases for figurative language, we will use contemporary theoretical accounts of metaphor processing to motivate our studies and design our approach to overcome previous methodological limitations in this research. We expect to uncover unappreciated communication deficits in patients with neurological damage. Given the ubiquity of metaphor use in structuring thought and communication, such deficits beg to be recognized. Our proposed studies will advance our understanding of the cognitive neuroscience of metaphor comprehension in health and disease and have implications for the rehabilitation of subjects with brain disorders such as stroke.

描述（由申请人提供）：有普遍的协议，具有根本性的语言从根本上组织人类的思维和交流方式。尽管具有比喻性语言的重要性，但我们对其神经基础知之甚少，甚至不太了解脑损伤对其使用的影响。沟通障碍会深刻影响患者的生活，因为语音，语义，甚至是话语的缺陷。但是，我们对比喻性语言理解的分解并不了解。我们假设，即使个人在脑部损害后在语言缺陷方面进行大量恢复，他们可能会继续在理解非文字语言方面存在深刻的问题。我们旨在研究功能神经影像学和基于患者的研究中的隐喻，这是形象性语言的关键形式。为了检验有关形象性语言神经基础的假设，我们将使用当代的隐喻处理理论说明来激发我们的研究并设计我们在这项研究中克服先前方法论局限性的方法。我们希望在神经系统损害的患者中发现无可证实的沟通缺陷。鉴于隐喻在结构思想和交流中的使用无处不在，因此这种缺陷愿意被认可。我们提出的研究将提高我们对健康和疾病中隐喻理解的认知神经科学的理解，并对脑部疾病（如中风）的受试者的康复具有影响。