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Články z ScienceDailyHearing metaphors activates brain regions involved in sensory experience

4. 2 2012 (00:26)

New brain imaging research reveals that a region of the brain important for sensing texture through touch, the parietal operculum, is also activated when someone listens to a sentence with a textural metaphor. The same region is not activated when a similar sentence expressing the meaning of the metaphor is heard.