My Brain is a Metaphor: Figurative Language

Figurative language is language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. Language has been one of the most fascinating topics to scientists for thousands of years, but even after all of this time, our understanding of language is still fairly minimal. When you look to an even more intricate and confusing aspect of language like figurative language, then we might as well give up. Today I sit down with Anna Aaronson to talk about figurative language processing in the brain and how confusing the findings are depending on what tasks and what methodology are used.

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5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Cognitive Processing Of Figurative Language

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