We investigated two types of metaphors in stock market commentary. Agent metaphors describe price trends as volitional actions, whereas object metaphors describe them as movements of inanimate objects. Study 1 examined the consequences of metaphoric description for the investor audience. Agent metaphors, compared with object metaphors and nonmetaphoric descriptions, caused investors to expect p...

You may have heard of Ramanujan (it is hard to believe you haven’t), but you may know little or nothing of his work. Of all the many identities he presented, Hardy chose one which for him represented the best of Ramanujan. I would like to show you this identity, and prove it. Following Euler, we define a partition of the positive integer n as a representation of n as a sum of positive integers,...

The marriage of evolution and development to produce the new discipline 'evo-devo' in biology is situated in the general history of evolutionary biology, and its significance for developmental cognitive science is discussed. The discovery and description of the highly conserved, robust and 'evolvable' mechanisms that organize the vertebrate body plan and fundamental physiology have direct impli...

CP violation is observed to date only inK decays and is parameterizable by a single quantity ǫ. Because it is one of the least understood phenomena in the Standard Model and holds a clue to baryogenesis, it must be investigated further. Highly specialized searches in K decays are possible. Effects in B decays are much larger. In addition to the traditional Bd → J/ψKS , ππ asymmetries, CP violat...

John Forbes Nash, Jr. was a child prodigy. While other boys his age were playing childhood games in their hometown of Bluefield, West Virginia, John was reading E.T. Bell’s Men of Mathematics. Learning more at home than he did at school, the young lad (who was encouraged by his educated parents) was able to solve some of math’s most difficult problems. Accepting a full-ride fellowship to Prince...

The amazing disparity of living birds is self-apparent, yet immensely challenging to fully quantify. After all, birds are represented by nearly 11,000 living species, comprising a mind-boggling spectrum of shapes, sizes, and colors (1). This incredible variability manifests in an incalculable number of ways (from habitat type to diet to life history), but adequately characterizing any of these ...

These phrases reflect a mapping from time to space. • Conceptual metaphors are internalized as “integration networks” that project concepts and relationships from one domain to another [6] • Metaphors and their integration networks can become culturally ingrained, transmitted between generations through beliefs, stories, fables, writings, etc. • Unidirectionality: we tend to apply concrete meta...

This study explores the metaphoric comprehension of normal Persian-speaking children, as well as theories of cognitive development and cultural and social impacts. The researchers discuss the improvement of the understanding of ontological conceptual metaphors through age growth and cognitive development, and how it helps to expand children’s thoughts and knowledge of the world. In this study, ...

Despite their age and prevalence, abstract games are often overlooked in contemporary discussions of games and meaning. In this paper I offer experiential metaphors as a critical method applicable to all games, particularly abstract games. To do this I introduce structural metaphors, image schemata and experiential gestalts to explain how experiential metaphors function. I then compare this met...