Figurative Language and Thought (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

Figurative Language and Thought (Counter

📁 Figurative Language and Thought (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches

Figurative Language and Thought (Counter

📁 Figurative Language and Thought (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Albert N. Katz, Cristina Cacciari, Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., Mark Turner 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Our understanding of the nature and processing of figurative language is central to several important issues in cognitive science, including the relationship of language and thought, how we process language, and how we comprehend abstract meaning. Over the past fifteen years, traditional approaches

Models of Visuospatial Cognition (Counte

📁 Models of Visuospatial Cognition (Counterpoints: Cognition, Memory, and Language)

✍ Manuel de Vega, Margaret Jean Intons-Peterson, Philip N. Johnson-Laird, Michel D 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

This second volume in the Counterpoints Series, which explores issues in psychology, child development, linguistics, and neuroscience, focuses on alternative models of visual-spatial processing in human cognition. This text offers extended chapters from three of the most respected and recognized inv

Gender Differences in Human Cognition (C

📁 Gender Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints - Cognition, Memory and Language)

✍ John T. E. Richardson, Paula J. Caplan, Mary Crawford, Janet Shibley Hyde 📂 Library 📅 1997 🌐 English

For years, both psychologists and the general public have been fascinated with the notion that there are gender differences in cognitive abilities; even now, flashy cover stories exploiting this idea dominate major news magazines, while research focuses on differences in verbal, mathematical, spatia

Gender Differences in Human Cognition (C

📁 Gender Differences in Human Cognition (Counterpoints - Cognition, Memory and Language)

✍ John T. E. Richardson, Paula J. Caplan, Mary Crawford, Janet Shibley Hyde 📂 Library 📅 1997 🌐 English

For years, both psychologists and the general public have been fascinated with the notion that there are gender differences in cognitive abilities; even now, flashy cover stories exploiting this idea dominate major news magazines, while research focuses on differences in verbal, mathematical, spatia

Figuring out Figuration (Figurative Thou

📁 Figuring out Figuration (Figurative Thought and Language)

✍ María Sandra Peña-Cervel, Francisco José Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 John Benjamins Publishing Company 🌐 English

<span>This book combines explanatory breadth with analytical delicacy. It offers a comprehensive study of a broad array of traditional figures of speech by systematizing linguistic evidence of the cognitive processes underlying them. Such processes are explicitly linked to different communicative co