PMID- 20947154
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110627
LR  - 20110308
IS  - 1090-2155 (Electronic)
IS  - 0093-934X (Linking)
VI  - 116
IP  - 3
DP  - 2011 Mar
TI  - Hemispheric asymmetries in processing L1 and L2 idioms: effects of salience and 
      context.
PG  - 136-50
LID - 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.007 [doi]
AB  - This study investigates the contribution of the left and right hemispheres to the 
      comprehension of bilingual figurative language and the joint effects of salience 
      and context on the differential cerebral involvement in idiom processing. The 
      divided visual field and the lexical decision priming paradigms were employed to 
      examine the activation of salient and nonsalient ambiguous idiom interpretations 
      (i.e., literal vs. non-literal) in the two hemispheres. Literally plausible 
      ambiguous idioms, L1 (Polish) and L2 (English), were embedded in unconstraining 
      ambiguous (e.g., I knew he kept an ace up his sleeve) or constraining unambiguous 
      context clearly favoring their conventional idiomatic interpretation (e.g., The 
      debating president kept an ace up his sleeve). Idioms were presented centrally, 
      followed by laterally presented targets related to the figurative (e.g., GAIN) or 
      literal (e.g., SHIRT) meaning of the idiom and displayed at Interstimulus 
      Intervals (ISIs) of 0 ms (Experiment 1), 300 ms (Experiment 2), and 800 ms 
      (Experiment 3). Results indicate that context and salience effects are 
      significantly modulated by the language (native vs. nonnative) of the stimulus 
      materials being presented to each hemisphere. Literal facilitation was found for 
      L2 idioms in all three ISI conditions, which supports the notion of the special 
      status that literal meanings of L2 idioms enjoy in the course of their processing 
      by nonnative language users. No significant differences were found between the 
      right and left hemispheres in regards to their sensitivity to contextual 
      constraints. Results are discussed in terms of the Graded Salience Hypothesis and 
      the Fine/Coarse Coding Theory.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Cieslicka, Anna B
AU  - Cieslicka AB
AD  - Department of Behavioral Sciences, Texas A&M International University, 5201 
      University Boulevard, Laredo, Texas 78041-1900, United States. 
      anna.cieslicka@tamiu.edu
FAU - Heredia, Roberto R
AU  - Heredia RR
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20101013
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Brain Lang
JT  - Brain and language
JID - 7506220
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Brain/*physiology
MH  - Comprehension/*physiology
MH  - Female
MH  - Functional Laterality/*physiology
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Language
MH  - Male
MH  - Photic Stimulation
MH  - Visual Fields/physiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2010/10/16 06:00
MHDA- 2011/06/28 06:00
CRDT- 2010/10/16 06:00
PHST- 2010/05/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2010/09/11 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2010/09/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2010/10/16 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/10/16 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/06/28 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0093-934X(10)00153-7 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.007 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Brain Lang. 2011 Mar;116(3):136-50. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.09.007. Epub 2010 
      Oct 13.