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 thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …

Emotional similarity refers to the tendency to group stimuli together because they evoke the
same feelings in us. The majority of research on similarity perception that has been …

Conceptual combination research investigates the processes involved in creating new
meaning from old referents. It is therefore essential that embodied theories of cognition are …

In this section we briefly describe several measures of lexical priming, including the lexical
decision, word naming, perceptual identification, and semantic decision tasks, as well as …

Studies of modifier-noun compounds have indicated that they tend to follow regular
semantic patterns (eg, Downing, Language 53: 810–842, 1977; Warren, Acta Universitatis …

This thesis focuses on English N+ N compounds and the primary purpose of the study is to
investigate the way in which compounded structures acquire their meaning and to check the …

En esta tesis estudiamos los compuestos nominales (CN) en inglés y español
pertenecientes a la terminología de la energía eólica. Estos términos compuestos son muy …

Within the cognitive neuroscience of language, the left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) is one
of the most consistent loci for semantic effects; yet its precise role in semantic processing …

Integrative priming is the facilitated recognition of a target word following a prime word with
which it can be combined to produce a sub-type of the target (eg, a lake bird is a type of …