Concrete processing of action metaphors: Evidence from ERP

Lai, Vicky T.; Howerton, Olivia; Desai, Rutvik H.

doi:10.1016/j.brainres.2019.03.005

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“…Second, the N400 is dependent on contextual expectations also when processing figurative expressions [52,59], as it is for processing literal language [14,100]. Moreover, studies in pragmatics allow to extend the classic view on the N400, offering a unique perspective: for instance, if we further scrutinize the role of the N400 in metaphor, a growing body of evidence suggests that meaning selection may involve further processes, such as analogical mapping, in which mental images play a role, as suggested by work on concrete versus abstract metaphors [46,[164][165][166]. Concerning the role of the P600, it is now widely accepted that this component is not only related to syntax [12,13,127,167].…”

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2021

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2021

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“…These features were especially prominent in the frontal region when the user spoke [34]. In addition, the characteristics of N400 appear in the frontal region in speech task [35]. Importantly, similar brain changes occur when we speak or imagine speech [36].…”

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A BCI based Smart Home System Combined with Event-related Potentials and Speech Imagery Task

Kim

Lee

2020

2020 8th International Winter Conference on Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)

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Recently, smart home systems based on braincomputer interface (BCI) has attracted a wide range of interests in both industry and academia. However, the current BCI system has several shortcomings as it produces a comparatively lower accuracy for real-time implementations as well as the intuitive paradigm for the users cannot be well established here. Therefore, in this study, we proposed a highly intuitive BCI paradigm that combines event-related potential (ERP) with the speech-imagery task for the individual target objects. The decoding accuracy of the proposed paradigm was 88.1% ( ± 5.90) which is a much significant higher performance than a conventional ERP system. Furthermore, the amplitude of N700 components was significantly enhanced over frontal regions which are priory evoked by the speech-imagery task. Our results could be utilized to develop a smart home system so that it could be more user-friendly and convenient by means of delivering user's intentions both, intuitively and accurately. Keywords-smart home control system; electroencephalography; event-related potential; imagined speechI.

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“…As well as empirical evidence for more generic embodied cognition, neuroimaging experiments also show that these types of effects extend to metaphorical language and so also to Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Citron & Goldberg, 2014;Desai et al, 2011;Lacey et al, 2012;Lai et al, 2019). In a comparison of cortical activation when reading about literal action ('the daughter grasped the flowers'), metaphorical action ('the public grasped the idea') and abstract action ('the public understood the idea'), fMRI studies showed that literal and metaphorical actions both activated the part of the brain associated with action planning but abstract sentences did not (Desai et al, 2011).…”

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“…Individuals read literal sentences ('the bodyguard bent the rod') and metaphorical sentences ('the church bent the rules'). The ERP showed similarities between the timing of neural activity for both METAPHOR, MEMORY AND MOVEMENT sentence types, suggesting that both started out with sensorimotor simulation (Lai et al, 2019) Activation of sensory cortex in relation to CMT has also been investigated. While having an fMRI, seven participants were asked to read 54 sentence pairs, with one sentence using a textural metaphor and the other sentence matched for meaning but using literal language ('she had a rough day', 'she had a bad day').…”

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Metaphor, memory and movement – Conceptual Metaphor Theory not supported in association with recognition and recall.

Williams¹

2021

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Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT) states that certain metaphor classes develop due to universal embodied human experiences and that these metaphor classes then influence cognitive processes and behaviour. In this paper, we investigated if movements made during learning affected memory. The hypothesis was that a movement that was congruent with the metaphor class up is good/down is bad would assist learning of valenced words and result in better recognition or recall, while incongruent movements would hinder learning and lead to poorer recognition and recall. Using an online survey, undergraduates were asked to learn nonsense words and their valenced meaning in English. They were then asked to make a movement – depending on the word’s valence – that was either congruent, incongruent or neutral to the metaphor class up is good/down is bad before being tested on recognition or recall accuracy. An Analysis of Variance was carried out. Participants were less accurate in recognition when they made a movement that was incongruent with the metaphor class up is good/down is bad than when they made a congruent or neutral movement. When recalling valenced meanings, the movement made by participants did not have any impact on recall accuracy. We concluded CMT may not be as robust as previous research has indicated. Keywords: conceptual metaphor theory, memory, movement, recognition, recall

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Concrete processing of action metaphors: Evidence from ERP

Cited by 35 publications

References 48 publications

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A BCI based Smart Home System Combined with Event-related Potentials and Speech Imagery Task

Metaphor, memory and movement – Conceptual Metaphor Theory not supported in association with recognition and recall.

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