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Castaño, Emilia; Gilboy, Elizabeth; Feijóo, Sara; Serrat, Elisabet; Rostan, Carles; Hilferty, Joseph; Cunillera, Toni – Cognitive Science, 2018
Conceptual metaphor is ubiquitous in language and thought, as we usually reason and talk about abstract concepts in terms of more concrete ones via metaphorical mappings that are hypothesized to arise from our embodied experience. One pervasive example is the conceptual projection of valence onto space, which flexibly recruits the vertical and…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Human Body, Handedness, Spatial Ability