We review the discovery, characterization, and evolving use of the N400, an event-related
brain potential response linked to meaning processing. We describe the elicitation of N400s …

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do
new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new …

In popular narratives, minimally counterintuitive concepts (MCIs), which violate one category
of our real-world knowledge (eg talking trees), are frequently embedded in emotional …

Neste artigo apresentaremos notícias sobre a construção que estamos empreendendo de
recurso lexical para o Português do Brasil, baseado na semântica de frames e vinculado à …

Le modèle multi-déterminé (Titone&Libben, The Mental Lexicon, 2014, 9, 473) suggère que
le traitement des idiomes dépend de multiples facteurs linguistiques (par exemple, la …

Researching metaphor can be approached from various perspectives. Psycholinguistic
views offer insight into how metaphoric expressions are comprehended during online tasks …

It has been shown that counterintuitive ideas from mythological and religious texts are more
acceptable than other (non‐religious) world knowledge violations. In the present experiment …

Context Using natural connected speech, the aim of the present study was to examine the
semantic congruity effect (ie the difference between semantically incongruous and …

The Processing of non-nominal Metaphors Page 1 The Processing of Non-Nominal Metaphors
Prof. Dr. -Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst Präsidentin der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Prof. Dr. Stefan …

Languages around the world use spatial terminology, like prepositions, to describe non-
spatial, abstract concepts, including time (eg, in the moment). The Metaphoric Mapping …