Impairments in the broader domain of pragmatics are considered to be a defining feature of
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). A challenging aspect of pragmatic competence is the …

Highlights• Relational reasoning underlies a myriad uniquely human abilities.• Multiple
cognitive and neural systems underlie abilities to perceive and reason about relations.• …

Research in the field of figurative language processing in Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
has demonstrated that autistic individuals experience systematic difficulties in the …

Older adults may experience certain forms of cognitive decline, but some forms of semantic
memory remain intact in older age. To address how metaphor comprehension changes with …

We report a study examining the role of linguistic context in modulating the influences of
individual differences in fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of literary …

Metaphor processing has been the subject of extensive research over the past five decades.
A systematic review of metaphor processing publications through bibliometric tools can …

Figurative language processing impairments in autism have been widely demonstrated, and
have been considered a defining feature of autism. Studies in this area often consider …

Neurodivergence is having 'a mind that functions in ways which diverge significantly from
the dominant societal standards of “normal”'(Walker, 2021, p. 33; Neuroqueer Heresies …

The cognitive reflection test (CRT) is a short measure of a person's ability to resist intuitive
response tendencies, and to produce normatively correct responses that are assumed to be …

Using poetic metaphors in the Serbian language, we identified systematic variations in the
impact of fluid and crystalized intelligence on comprehension of metaphors that varied in …