INVESTIGADORES
MINERVINO Ricardo Adrian
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 A. MINERVINO; ALEJANDRA MARTÍN; MÁXIMO TRENCH
Lugar:
Amsterdam, Holanda
Reunión:
Congreso; 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.; 2009
Institución organizadora:
Cognitive Science Society
Resumen:
An experiment was carried out to test the thesis of thesensory-motor basis of metaphorical abstract concepts.Congenitally blind and sighted participants had to paraphrasemetaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDINGis GRASPING and UNDERSTANDING is SEEINGconceptual metaphors, and to evaluate to what extent they feltthey had understood them. On the one hand, congenitallyblind participants did not comprehend betterUNDERSTANDING is GRASPING expressions thanUNDERSTANDING is SEEING expressions. On the otherhand, sighted participants did not comprehendUNDERSTANDING is SEEING expressions better than theblind. The implications of the results for the embodiedConceptual Metaphor Theory of Lakoff and Johnson arediscussed.
