Dual coding theory (DCT) explains human behavior and experience in terms of dynamic
associative processes that operate on a rich network of modality-specific verbal and …

A central question in metaphor research is how metaphors establish map**s between
concepts from different domains. The authors propose an evolutionary path based on …

The question of whether ability-related emotional intelligence (ability EI) predicts important
life outcomes has attracted considerably more attention than the question of what ability EI …

This book presents one side of a dialogue with Ray Gibbs that we kept going for more than
five years. We had been invited by Bertie Kaal and Günter Radden to write a joint book on …

This article examines metaphoric competence and its relationship to L2 learning and
teaching. The study described measured four aspects of metaphoric competence in the …

Metaphor is crucial in human cognition and creativity, facilitating abstract thinking,
analogical reasoning, and idea generation. Typically, human raters manually score the …

This research investigates the process of metaphor comprehension. We compare two
classes of processing algorithms: those that begin by accessing or deriving an abstraction …

Abstract The Paivio, Yuille, and Madigan (1968) norms for 925 nouns were extended in two
ways. The first extension involved the collecting of a much more extensive and diverse set of …

A great deal of attention has recently been paid by researchers to the study of various facets
of conversational coherence. The centrality of this concern for the understanding of natural …

The effect of visual metaphor in advertising is claimed to follow a curvilinear pattern: visual
metaphors that constitute a moderate challenge are said to have a bigger impact on …