Comprehending scientific metaphors in the bilingual brain: Evidence from event-related potentials.

Front Psychol · 2022 · PMC9791987 · PMID 36578691

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Language × hemisphere interactions were not significant for the scientific metaphoric pairs ( p = 0.14), but marginally significant for the literal pairs [ F (2, 32) = 3.33, p = 0.064, η 2 p = 0.17].

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