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    "pk": 30113,
    "title": "Modelling brain activity associated with metaphor processing with distributionalsemantic models",
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    "abstract": "In this study we investigate how lexical-semantic relations as-sociated with the literal meaning (and abstract meaning) arebeing accessed across the brain during familiar metaphor com-prehension. We utilize a data-driven whole-brain searchlightsimilarity-decoding analysis. We contrast decoding metaphoricphrases (”she’s grasping the idea”) using distributional seman-tic models of the verb in the phrase (VERB model) versus thatof the more abstract verb-sense (PARAPHRASE VERB model)obtained from literal paraphrases of the metaphoric phrases(”she’s understanding the idea”). We showed successful decod-ing with the VERB model across frontal, temporal and parietallobes mainly within areas of the language and default-modenetworks. In contrast, decoding with the PARAPHRASE VERBmodel was restricted to frontal-temporal lobes within areas ofthe language-network which overlapped to some extent withsignificant decoding with the VERB model. Overall, the re-sults suggest that lexical-semantic relations closely associatedwith the abstract meaning in metaphor processing are largelylocalized to language and amodal (multimodal) semantic mem-ory systems of the brain, while those more associated withthe literal meaning are processed across a distributed seman-tic network including areas implicated in mental imagery andsocial-cognition.",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "metaphor; abstraction; distributional semantics"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Poster Session 3",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9r35m0kf",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Vesna",
            "middle_name": "G.",
            "last_name": "Djokic",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Amsterdam",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Ekaterina",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Shutova",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Amsterdam",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2020-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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