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 …

A large number of experimental findings from neuroscience and experimental psychology
demonstrated interactions between spatial cognition and numerical cognition. In particular …

War metaphors are ubiquitous in discussions of everything from political campaigns to
battles with cancer to wars against crime, drugs, poverty, and even salad. Why are warfare …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

Imagery and Text, Second Edition extends the first edition's unified theory of cognition in
literacy from the perspective of Dual Coding Theory (DCT), one of the most influential and …

'Metaphor', a form of figurative language in which one thing or idea is expressed in terms of
another, is becoming an increasingly popular area of study, as it is relevant to the work of …

How do our brains enable us to tell and follow stories? And how do stories affect our minds?
In Stories and the Brain, Paul B. Armstrong analyzes the cognitive processes involved in …

Narratives enable readers to vividly experience fictional and non-fictional contexts. Writers
use a variety of language features to control these experiences: they direct readers in how to …

Conceptual metaphor theory suggests that knowledge is structured around metaphorical
mappings derived from physical experience. Segregated processing of object properties in …

Abstract Whether Theory of Mind (ToM) contributes to metaphor understanding has been
largely investigated in language acquisition and decay. Yet we know very little about the role …