Time Course and Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Metaphor in Literary Context

Bambini, Valentina; Canal, Paolo; Resta, Donatella; Grimaldi, Mirko

doi:10.1080/0163853x.2017.1401876

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“…An alternative interpretation is that the difference for the social positive condition reflects a sustained negativity for incongruent trials that is mostly evident around 700-900 ms but that arises earlier (as can be seen qualitatively from Figure 4, panel A). A similar sustained negativity with similar topography has also been previously reported, although in a different context, in conditions associated with higher efforts in elaborating meanings (Bambini, Canal, Resta, & Grimaldi, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Electrophysiological Correlates of Social Group Representations in Affective Priming

Šuran¹,

Arcara²,

Piretti³

et al. 2019

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There is growing evidence in cognitive neuroscience that processing of information about social groups involves the associated affective features, compared with processing information about nonsocial semantic categories. With the present study we aimed at assessing the extent of such involvement by measuring event-related potentials in healthy individuals while they performed an affective priming paradigm requiring evaluative responses. Behavioral results showed a greater affective priming for social group than for nonsocial category targets, while the analysis of the neural correlates revealed a modulation in the late positive component, which was higher in the positive valence social groups as compared to positive valence nonsocial categories. The present findings complement previous neuropsychological and brain stimulation studies by showing how the engagement in affective processing enhances the representation of social groups compared to nonsocial categories, as indicated by the emergence of a distinct behavioral and neurophysiological response.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Electrophysiological Correlates of Social Group Representations in Affective Priming

Šuran¹,

Arcara²,

Piretti³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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“…Similar results for novel metaphors versus literal utterances were reported by Bambini, et al (2018), who investigated the time-course of literary metaphor processing in Italian poems and novels within a literary context, compared to non-metaphorical utterances of the same words.…”

Section: (Deliberate) Metaphor Processingsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Studies that took the amount of foregrounding elements in a sentence into account found that this affects readers' evaluations of the aesthetic structure of the sentence, as well as their cognitive and attitudinal responses (van Peer, Hakemulder, & Zyngler, 2007), and that it influences readers' absorption into the story world (Kuijpers, Hakemulder, Tan, & Doicaru, 2014). To date, however, research that specifically examines the effects of a single foregrounding device are scarce (but see Bambini, Canal, Resta, & Grimaldi, 2018, for foregrounding effects of literary metaphor).…”

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confidence: 99%

Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

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Reijnierse

Willems

2018

SSOL

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Metaphors occur frequently in literary texts. Deliberate Metaphor Theory (DMT; e.g.,Steen, 2017) proposes that metaphors that serve a communicative functionasmetaphor are radically different from metaphors that do not have this function. We investigated differences in processing between deliberate and non-deliberate metaphors, compared to non-metaphorical words in literary reading. Using the Deliberate Metaphor Identification Procedure (Reijnierse et al., 2018), we identified metaphors in two literary stories. Then, eye-tracking was used to investigate participants’ (N = 72) reading behavior. Deliberate metaphors were read slower than non-deliberate metaphors, and both metaphor types were read slower than non-metaphorical words. Differences were controlled for several psycholinguistic variables. Differences in reading behavior were related to individual differences in reading experience and absorption and appreciation of the story. These results are in line with predictions from DMT and underline the importance of distinguishing between metaphor types in the experimental study of literary reading.

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“…The ERP correlates of processing novel metaphors are however different from N400 and P600 effects. Experiments that compared conventional metaphors to novel ones found sustained negative ERPs in response to novel metaphors, such as 'Brain waves are stethoscopes' (Arzouan et al 2007b;Lai et al 2009;Goldstein et al 2012;Bambini et al 2019). These sustained negative shifts in ERPs likely reflect the construction of metaphoric meaning, not the novelty of the conceptual mapping as such (Davenport and Coulson 2011).…”

Section: Neural Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boon or Burden? The Role of Compositional Meaning in Figurative Language Processing and Acquisition

Vulchanova

Milburn

Vulchanov

et al. 2019

J of Log Lang and Inf

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We critically address current theories of figurative language, focusing on the role of literal or compositional meaning in the interpretation of non-literal expressions, including idioms and metaphors. Specifically, we formulate and discuss the processing hypothesis that compositional meaning may either facilitate or impede the recovery or construction of the intended figurative meaning depending on multiple factors, and in particular, on the expression's decomposability and on the "strength" of semantic relations between the compositional and figurative meanings. As a case study, we consider research on processing and acquisition of figurative expressions in highly verbal individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in comparison to neuro-typical individuals, and examine the factors that may account for the observed comprehension deficits in the ASD group. Based on this evidence, we discuss some of the strategies employed by language users in processing non-compositional or non-literal expressions, and we highlight implications for research on natural language comprehension and processing systems in the domain of figurative meaning.

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Time Course and Neurophysiological Underpinnings of Metaphor in Literary Context

Cited by 40 publications

References 79 publications

Electrophysiological Correlates of Social Group Representations in Affective Priming

Electrophysiological Correlates of Social Group Representations in Affective Priming

Eye movements reveal readers’ sensitivity to deliberate metaphors during narrative reading

Boon or Burden? The Role of Compositional Meaning in Figurative Language Processing and Acquisition

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