Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then,
developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal …

The interpretation of proverbs has a long tradition in the assessment of abstract thinking,
particularly in schizophrenia. Although the usefulness of proverb interpretation as a …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Most of us laugh at something funny multiple times during a typical day. Humor serves
multiple purposes, and although there is a sizable and expanding research literature on the …

Now in its fourth edition and with extensive updated research," Later Language
Development" addresses the development of spoken and written language from …

Research methods are generally improved through new understandings of scientific
procedure, validity, and reliability. Variations in these understandings—among knowledge …

Various defenses of amodal symbol systems are addressed, including amodal symbols in
sensory-motor areas, the causal theory of concepts, supramodal concepts, latent semantic …

A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across
22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the …

Abstract What Science Offers the Humanities examines some of the deep problems facing
the study of culture. It focuses on the excesses of postmodernism, but also acknowledges …

SEE SHORT BLURB FOR ALTERNATE COPY... A complex, intriguing, and important verbal
entity, the proverb has been the subject of a vast number of opinions, studies, and analyses …