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 …

An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to
understand the mechanisms of creativity. In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at …

Repeating the movements associated with activities such as drawing or sports typically
leads to improvements in kinematic behavior: these movements become faster, smoother …

Speaking in English is an important skill to master to gain an upper hand in a person's
academic and professional life. Different countries, where English is considered to be a …

Prior studies of A: B:: C: D verbal analogies have identified several factors that affect
performance, including the semantic similarity between source and target domains …

Semantic priming is a crucial phenomenon to study the organization of semantic memory. A
novel type of priming effect, integrative priming, has been identified behaviorally, whereby a …

If relational priming is responsible for unintentional analogical reasoning, as has been
suggested, it too should occur unintentionally. However, results from previous studies are …

In evaluative priming, positive or negative primes facilitate reactions to targets that share the
same valence. While this effect is commonly explained as reflecting invariant structures in …

Distinguishing between nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams invites
reconsideration of both dream formation and dream function. A comprehensive theory of …

We introduce the (extrinsic) relational Simon task as a tool for capturing automatic relational
stimulus processing. In three experiments, participants responded to a perceptual relation …