Schizophrenia patients have difficulty processing nonliteral forms of discourse such as idiomatic expressions. We hypothesized that schizophrenia patients would show impaired idiom processing for lite...
In the apparent absence of suitable measures of idiom comprehension in normally developing and clinical populations, this study examined the relationship between a newly developed play task and a more...
Recent neuropsychological and neurophysiological studies have suggested that the neural correlates of idiom processing are predominantly located in the left Brodmann's area (BA) 22 and, to some extent...
This study suggests that 'nerves' as presented in a primary care clinic is a lay idiom for emotional distress and documents a relationship between the folk ailment 'nerves' and anxiety and depression....