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    "pk": 27265,
    "title": "Can Illness be Bright?\nMetaphor Comprehension Depends on Linguistic and Embodied Factors",
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    "abstract": "Conceptual representations in language processing employ\nboth linguistic distributional and embodied information. Here,\nwe aim to demonstrate the roles of these two components in\nmetaphor processing. The linguistic component is captured by\nlinguistic distributional frequency (LDF), that is, how often\nthe constituent words appear together in context. The\nembodied component, on the other hand, refers to how easy it\nis to generate an embodied simulation, operationalised by a\nprevious norming study. In the current study, we looked at the\ninterplay of these components in metaphor processing, and\ninvestigated their roles at different depths of processing in\ntwo experiments. Thus, we required participants to engage in\nshallow processing (Experiment 1: Sensibility Judgement), or\ndeep processing (Experiment 2: Interpretation Generation).\nResults showed that the increase of both variables made it\nmore likely to accept a metaphor. However, whereas ease of\nsimulation (EoS) contributed to the speed of processing at\nboth levels of depth, LDF only affected the speed in shallow\nprocessing. Specifically, LDF acted as a heuristic, both to\nspeed up responses to accept metaphors as sensible when the\nfrequency is high, and to flag up potentially unsuccessful\nprocessing when it is low. Overall, these results support views\nof language processing that emphasise the importance of both\nlinguistic and embodied components according to task goals.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "metaphor processing; embodied cognition;\nlinguistic distribution; simulation; depth of processing"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Posters: Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7sf356fk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Pei",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Liu",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Louise",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Connell",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Dermot",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Lynott",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Lancaster University",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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