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Yanina Prystauka; Emma Wing; Gerry T. M. Altmann – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
In a series of sentence-picture verification studies we contrasted, for example, "… choose the balloon with "… inflate the balloon" and "… the inflated balloon" to examine the degree to which different representational components of event representation (specifically, the different object states entailed by the inflating…
Descriptors: Sentence Structure, Pictorial Stimuli, Concept Formation, Figurative Language
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Kathleen Taylor – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2024
The expanding field of affective neuroscience is redefining the role of emotions in cognition, reasoning, and judgment. This contradicts long-standing assumptions about cognition that consider emotions antithetical to learning. Emotions arose early in human brain development as essential to survival by directing the embodied brain toward…
Descriptors: Neurosciences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Educational Environment, Adult Education
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Zhanna Zalledinova; Kunipa Ashinova; Almash Seidikenova; Gulnar Alipbayevna Karibayeva – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
The article presents the results of a comprehensive study of the complex cognitive-linguistic mechanisms underlying the formation and representation of spiritual-philosophical concepts in J. O'Donohue's "Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World" (1997). Drawing on cognitive linguistics, philosophy, and cultural studies, the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Spiritual Development, Figurative Language, Imagery
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Yiding Zhao – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2024
Idioms are highly conventionalized expressions that allow users to express beyond literal meanings. Despite the language difference, counterparts of idioms may overlap cross-culturally due to similar origin, social habits, and experiences. It is therefore interesting to probe whether L2 learners may benefit from deliberate instructions built on…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction