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Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason

An overview of the basics of metaphorical thought and language from the perspective of Neurocognition, the integrated interdisciplinary study of how conceptual thought and language work in the brain. The paper outlines a theory of metaphor circuitry and discusses how everyday reason makes use of emb...

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Autor principal: Lakoff, George
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566012
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00958
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spelling pubmed-42672782015-01-06 Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason Lakoff, George Front Hum Neurosci Neuroscience An overview of the basics of metaphorical thought and language from the perspective of Neurocognition, the integrated interdisciplinary study of how conceptual thought and language work in the brain. The paper outlines a theory of metaphor circuitry and discusses how everyday reason makes use of embodied metaphor circuitry. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4267278/ /pubmed/25566012 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00958 Text en Copyright © 2014 Lakoff. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
title Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
title_full Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
title_fullStr Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
title_full_unstemmed Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
title_short Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
title_sort mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4267278/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25566012
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00958
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