INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN EXECUTIVE CONTROL RELATE TO METAPHOR PROCESSING: AN EYE MOVEMENT STUDY OF SENTENCE READING

Individual Differences in Executive Control Relate to Metaphor Processing: An Eye Movement Study of Sentence Reading

Metaphors are common elements of language that allow us to creatively stretch the limits of word meaning.However, metaphors vary in their degree of novelty, which determines whether people must create new meanings on-line or retrieve previously known metaphorical meanings from Slippers memory.Such variations affect the degree to which general cogni

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