INVESTIGADORES
TRENCH Juan Maximo
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Congenitally Blind do not Comprehend Better I Grasp the Idea than I See the Idea: A challenge to the Sensory-motor Basis of Metaphorical Concepts
Autor/es:
RICARDO MINERVINO; ALEJANDRA MARTIN; MAXIMO TRENCH
Lugar:
Amsterdam
Reunión:
Congreso; 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society; 2009
Institución organizadora:
The Cognitive Science Society
Resumen:
An experiment was carried out to test the thesis of the sensory-motor basis of metaphorical abstract concepts. Congenitally blind and sighted participants had to paraphrase metaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDING is GRASPING and UNDERSTAN-DING is SEEING conceptual metaphors, and to evaluate how much they felt they had understood them. On the one hand, congenitally blind participants did not comprehend better the UNDERSTANDING is GRASPING expressions than the UNDERSTANDING is SEEING expressions. On the other hand, sighted participants did not comprehend the UNDERSTANDING is SEEING expressions better than the blind. The implications of the results for the embodied Conceptual Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson are discussed.
