The neural, evolutionary, developmental, and bodily basis of metaphor

Seitz, Jay A.

doi:10.1016/j.newideapsych.2005.11.001

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“…The embodiment-driven approach, however, has been criticized for its disregard of neural associations in the brain, as well as earlier occurrences of synaesthetic metaphors in the speech of young children compared with other types of metaphors, which might indicate that biological factors are at work (Marks et al 1987;Seitz 1997Seitz , 2005. Rakova (2003) has argued that linguistic synaesthesia has a biological motivation based on the evidence obtained in physiological research.…”

Section: Explanatory Models For Linguistic Synaesthesiamentioning

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Synaesthesia in Chinese: A corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin

2018

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This study adopted a corpus-based approach to examine the synaesthetic metaphors of gustatory adjectives in Mandarin. Based on the distribution of synaesthetic uses in the corpus, we found that: (1) the synaesthetic metaphors of Mandarin gustatory adjectives exhibited directionality; (2) the directionality of Mandarin synaesthetic gustatory adjectives showed both commonality and specificity when compared with the attested directionality of gustatory adjectives in English, which calls for a closer re-examination of the claim of cross-lingual universality of synaesthetic tendencies; and (3) the distribution and directionality of Mandarin synaesthetic gustatory adjectives could not be predicted by a single hypothesis, such as the embodiment-driven approach or the biological association-driven approach. Thus, linguistic synaesthesia was constrained by both the embodiment principle and the biological association mechanism.

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Section: Explanatory Models For Linguistic Synaesthesiamentioning

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Synaesthesia in Chinese: A corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin

2018

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“…The presence of such crossmodal associations shows that the brain is capable of abstracting supramodal similarities between stimuli from different modalities. Furthermore, the brain’s ability to extract such supramodal correspondences is the foundation of metaphorical thinking, i.e., the ability to perceive similarities between distant ideas (the phrase ‘distant ideas’ used here is on its own an example of a cross-modal association) (Marks, 1982 ; Ramachandran & Hubbard, 2001 ; Seitz, 2005 ).…”

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Silent shapes and shapeless sounds: the robustness of the diminished crossmodal correspondences effect in autism spectrum conditions

Król

Ferenc

2019

Psychological Research

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We performed a registered replication of the Oberman and Ramachandran (Soc Neurosci 3(3-4):348-355, 2008) study on the 'kiki/bouba' effect in autism spectrum conditions (ASC). The aim of the study was to test the robustness of the diminished crossmodal correspondences effect in autism, but also to verify whether this effect is not an artifact of differences in intelligence. We tested a Polish-speaking sample of 21 participants with ADOS-confirmed autism spectrum conditions (mean age 15.90) and 21 age-(mean age 15.86), sex-and IQ-matched neurotypical control participants. Procedure closely followed the replicated study. Participants' task was to match five pairs of unfamiliar words and shapes. Matching words and shapes had similar supramodal characteristics that allowed the match. We report partial replication of the diminished 'kiki/bouba' effect in individuals with ASC compared to the neurotypical control group. However, we found that nonverbal intelligence also significantly contributed to task performance, but only in participants with autism, suggesting a compensatory role of intelligence. Finally, the effect of autism severity (measured by ADOS classification) was significant-crossmodal correspondences were weaker in individuals with autism, compared to those with autism spectrum diagnosis.

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“…Whilst not specifically focused on mathematics, as was the case of Lakoff and Núñez (2000), Seitz (2005) proposes four different types of body-based metaphors, including (1) perceptual metaphors (spaghetti as a "bunch of worms"), (2) perceptual-affective mappings, (3) enactive metaphors (also called movement-movement metaphors, which involve metaphoric associations between moving things: the to-and-fro motion of a long string and a swing) and (4) cross-modal metaphor (in which associations are made from one domain-say, motion-to another-say, perception: two pencils akimbo are leaning over to tell each other a secret). Seitz would thus classify Lakoff and Núñez's "motion along a path" grounding metaphor as an enactive metaphor.…”

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Drawing space: mathematicians’ kinetic conceptions of eigenvectors

Sinclair

Tabaghi

2010

Educ Stud Math

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This paper explores how mathematicians build meaning through communicative activity involving talk, gesture and diagram. In the course of describing mathematical concepts, mathematicians use these semiotic resources in ways that blur the distinction between the mathematical and physical world. We shall argue that mathematical meaning of eigenvectors depends strongly on both time and motion-hence, on physical interpretations of mathematical abstractions-which are dimensions of thinking that are typically deliberately absent from formal, written definition of the concept. We shall also show how gesture and talk contribute differently and uniquely to mathematical conceptualisation and further elaborate the claim that diagrams provide an essential mediating role between the two.

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The neural, evolutionary, developmental, and bodily basis of metaphor

Cited by 36 publications

References 70 publications

Synaesthesia in Chinese: A corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin

Synaesthesia in Chinese: A corpus-based study on gustatory adjectives in Mandarin

Silent shapes and shapeless sounds: the robustness of the diminished crossmodal correspondences effect in autism spectrum conditions

Drawing space: mathematicians’ kinetic conceptions of eigenvectors

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