The role of literal meaning in figurative language comprehension: evidence from masked priming ERP
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The role of literal meaning in figurative language comprehension: evidence from masked priming ERP
The role of literal meaning during the construction of meaning that goes beyond pure literal composition was investigated by combining cross-modal masked priming and ERPs. This experimental design was chosen to compare two conflicting theoretical positions on this topic. The indirect access account claims that literal aspects are processed first, and additional meaning components are computed o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00583