Individual Differences in Executive Control Relate to Metaphor Processing: An Eye Movement Study of Sentence Reading

Individual Differences in Executive Control Relate to Metaphor Processing: An Eye Movement Study of Sentence Reading

Metaphors are common elements of language that allow us to creatively stretch the limits of word meaning. However, metaphors vary in their degree of novelty, which determines whether people must create new meanings on-line or retrieve previously known metaphorical meanings from memory. Such variatio...

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Main Authors: Georgie eColumbus, Naveed eSheikh, Marilena eCote-Lecaldare, Katja eHäuser, Shari R Baum, Debra eTitone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Eye Movements
executive control
context
metaphor
Idioms
sentence reading
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01057/full

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