2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cognitive processes of nonliteral comprehension of utterances
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20530654
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Experimental psychology
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
ABE Junichi Hokkaido University, 名誉教授 (40091409)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 認知過程 / 発話 / 理解 / 意味 / 意図 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study explored the conditions under which an utterance was interpreted as an ironical expression, not as a literal expression. This study also examined how different the fMRI neural responses in each case of literal and ironical interpretations of utterances. The results of the experiments suggest that a nonliteral meaning of an utterance and a communicative connotation of the utterance are separable products from the different neural networks in the brain.
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Research Products
(11 results)
