Metaphor comprehension: An individual-differences approach

Publication date: April 2019Source: Journal of Memory and Language, Volume 105Author(s): Dušan Stamenković, Nicholas Ichien, Keith J. HolyoakAbstractThe nature of the mental processes involved in metaphor comprehension has been the focus of debate, with controversy focusing on the relative role of general analogical reasoning versus language-specific conceptual combination. In the present set of studies, we take an individual-differences approach to examine the comprehension of a variety of metaphors, some taken from literary sources, using several types of comprehension tests. In a series of metaphor-comprehension studies with college students, we measured both fluid intelligence (using the nonverbal Raven's Progressive Matrices test) and crystalized verbal intelligence (using a new S...

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