Brain Processing of Nonliteral Language:ERP Researches / 中国临床心理学杂志

The nonliteral language and the literal language may be stored and processed differently in the brain. This review examines studies on idiom,metaphor and prosody processing by event-related brain potentials(ERPs). Many kinds of nonliteral languages,may be automatic speech modulated by the right hemisphere. What are to be further examined is the research paradigm of nonliteral language,the development of automatic speech and the social and emotional interaction.