We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

This paper explores the trade‐off between cognitive effort and cognitive effects during
immediate metaphor comprehension. We specifically evaluate the fundamental claim of …

Bowdle and Gentner (2005) proposed a reconciliation of the comparison and categorization
models of metaphor comprehension. Their career of metaphor model posits that, as a …

The most sustained and innovative recent work on metaphor has occurred in cognitive
science and psychology. Psycholinguistic investigation suggests that novel, poetic …

Psycholinguistic research has shown that, with appropriate context, people take no longer to
understand metaphors than to understand semantically comparable literal language. This …

Many researchers consider metaphor so fundamental to psychological activity that they
claim that it does not require extra cognitive effort to process. We do not dispute that …

The title of this chapter needs immediate expansion:“some types of metaphor” would be a
more exact, if too long a title. A major claim of this chapter is that there is no single …

ERPs were recorded while subjects were reading short familiar metaphors (eg, Those
fighters are lions), unfamiliar metaphors (Those apprentices are lions), or literal control …

Metaphor has a double life. It can be described as a directional process in which a stable,
familiar base domain provides inferential structure to a less clearly specified target. But …

The general consensus emerging from decades of empirical investigation of metaphor
processing is that, when appropriately contextualised, metaphorically used language is no …