The interplay between inhibitory control and metaphor conventionality.

When a metaphor is first encountered (lawyers are sharks), several meanings are activated, but the literal ones (lawyers have fins) need to be inhibited to successfully compute the figurative meaning (lawyers are aggressive). With repeated exposure that metaphor becomes conventionalized, and its fig...

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Publicado en:Memory & Cognition Vol. 49; no. 6; pp. 1267 - 1285
Autores principales: Sana, Faria, Park, Juana, Gagné, Christina L., Spalding, Thomas L.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2021
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