Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 3 |
Descriptor
Figurative Language | 3 |
Motion | 3 |
Semantics | 3 |
Cognitive Processes | 2 |
Perception | 2 |
Sentences | 2 |
Abstract Reasoning | 1 |
Attention | 1 |
Cartoons | 1 |
Comprehension | 1 |
Concept Formation | 1 |
More ▼ |
Author
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 3 |
Reports - Research | 2 |
Reports - Descriptive | 1 |
Education Level
Higher Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
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
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
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