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An Electrophysiological Abstractness Effect for Metaphorical Meaning Making

Neuroimaging studies show that metaphors activate sensorimotor areas. These findings were interpreted as metaphors contributing to conceptual thought by mapping concrete, somatosensory information onto abstract ideas. But is sensorimotor information a necessary constituent of figurative meaning? The...

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Autor principal: Forgács, Bálint
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Society for Neuroscience 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7559308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32817197
http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0052-20.2020