{"pk":26013,"title":"Activation and Rejection of Irrelevant Meaning in Simile Sentences","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the processing of topic meaning in metaphor comprehension, which consists not only of the\nacceptance of metaphor-relevant meaning but also the rejection of metaphor-irrelevant meaning. Our study examined the rejection\nprocess of topic word (e.g., “lawyer”) that include an irrelevant meaning (e.g., “helps people”) in metaphor comprehension\n(e.g., “a lawyer is like a shark”) using a priming paradigm and meaningfulness decision task: an experimental study reveals that\nthe metaphor-irrelevant meaning is activated prior to the rejection process of the irrelevant meaning in metaphor comprehension.\nOur results suggest that the processing of metaphor-irrelevant meaning is composed of two different stages.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2h22r7h4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Tomohiro","middle_name":"","last_name":"Taira","name_suffix":"","institution":"Osaka City University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26013/galley/15637/download/"}]}