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Direct linkKacinik, Natalie A.; Chiarello, Christine – Brain and Language, 2007
Two divided visual field priming experiments examined cerebral asymmetries for understanding metaphors varying in sentence constraint. Experiment 1 investigated ambiguous words (e.g., SWEET and BRIGHT) with literal and metaphoric meanings in ambiguous and unambiguous sentence contexts, while Experiment 2 involved standard metaphors (e.g., "The…
Descriptors: Sentences, Figurative Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Discrimination
Evans, Karla K.; Treisman, Anne – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Studies have suggested attention-free semantic processing of natural scenes in which concurrent tasks leave category detection unimpaired (e.g., F. Li, R. VanRullen, C. Koch, & P. Perona, 2002). Could this ability reflect detection of disjunctive feature sets rather than high-level binding? Participants detected an animal target in a rapid serial…
Descriptors: Perception, Attention, Semantics, Language Processing
