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Banaruee, Hassan; Khoshsima, Hooshang; Zare-Behtash, Esmail; Yarahmadzehi, Nahid – Cogent Education, 2019
Describing the processes of metaphor comprehension has been a hot topic of discussion among researchers throughout the past four decades. One of the major challenges has been to find a mechanism that can describe the processes involved in the comprehension of various kinds of metaphors. This article suggests that different types of metaphors could…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Reading Comprehension, Concept Formation, Abstract Reasoning
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Teuscher, Ursina; McQuire, Marguerite; Collins, Jennifer; Coulson, Seana – Cognitive Science, 2008
Two experiments investigated whether motion metaphors for time affected the perception of spatial motion. Participants read sentences either about literal motion through space or metaphorical motion through time written from either the ego-moving or object-moving perspective. Each sentence was followed by a cartoon clip. Smiley-moving clips showed…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Self Concept, Cartoons
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Bergen, Benjamin K.; Lindsay, Shane; Matlock, Teenie; Narayanan, Srini – Cognitive Science, 2007
There is mounting evidence that language comprehension involves the activation of mental imagery of the content of utterances (Barsalou, 1999; Bergen, Chang, & Narayan, 2004; Bergen, Narayan, & Feldman, 2003; Narayan, Bergen, & Weinberg, 2004; Richardson, Spivey, McRae, & Barsalou, 2003; Stanfield & Zwaan, 2001; Zwaan, Stanfield, & Yaxley, 2002).…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs