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 …

Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

Humans live in a perceptual world. All of humanity's accomplishments, from agriculture to
space travel, depend on us being able to interact with the world through seeing, feeling …

People are capable of thinking about the future, the past, remote locations, another person's
perspective, and counterfactual alternatives. Without denying the uniqueness of each …

The study of metaphor is now firmly established as a central topic within cognitive science
and the humanities. We marvel at the creative dexterity of gifted speakers and writers for …

An emerging class of theories concerning the functional structure of the brain takes the
reuse of neural circuitry for various cognitive purposes to be a central organizational …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

A major revolution in the study of metaphor occurred 30 years ago with the introduction of
“conceptual metaphor theory”(CMT). Unlike previous theories of metaphor and metaphorical …

Talk of linguistic universals has given cognitive scientists the impression that languages are
all built to a common pattern. In fact, there are vanishingly few universals of language in the …

From the late 1950s until 1975, cognition was understood mainly as disembodied symbol
manipulation in cognitive psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, and the nascent field …