Figures Of Speech: Understanding Idioms Requires Both Sides Of The Brain

Monday, September 14, 2009 - 22:28 in Health & Medicine

Is it better to treat someone with kid gloves or to treat them carefully? Researchers in Italy have investigated how the brain recognizes that the first phrase means the same as the second. The researchers suggest that we use both hemispheres to understand idioms.

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