The Lab Discovered: Place-for-Institution Metonyms Appearing in Subject Position Are Processed as Agents.

"Hospital" can refer to a physical place or more figuratively to the people associated with it. Such place-for-institution metonyms are common in everyday language, but there remain several open questions in the literature regarding how they are processed. The goal of the current eyetracking experim...

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Published in:Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory & Cognition Vol. 50; no. 7; pp. 1152 - 1167
Main Authors: Lowder, Matthew W., Zhou, Adrian, Gordon, Peter C.
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Jul2024
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