IPEHCS   26259
INSTITUTO PATAGONICO DE ESTUDIOS DE HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS SOCIALES
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Comprensión de expreseiones metafóricas convencionales y novedosas por parte de ciegos congénitos
Autor/es:
LUISINA RIVADERO; RICARDO MINERVINO; MELISA DIAZ; MICAELA TAVERNINI; MAXIMO TRENCH
Lugar:
Buenos Aires
Reunión:
Congreso; Memorias del XI Congreso Internacional de Investigación y Práctica Profesional en Psicología; 2019
Institución organizadora:
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Resumen:
From the embodied approach to conceptual metaphor theory (Lakoff, 2014; Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) it follows that congeni-tally blind participants should exhibit some difficulties for com-prehending visual metaphors-a prediction that does not follow from an amodal perspective on metaphor comprehension (e.g., Bowdle & Gentner, 2005). Two experiments were carried out to shed light on this debate. In Experiment 1, 20 sighted and 20 congenitally blind participants were exposed to three types of expressions: metaphorical expressions derived from the UN-DERSTANDING IS SEEING conceptual metaphor, metaphorical expressions derived from the UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING conceptual metaphor, and filler expressions. No differences were found between blind and sighted participants for any type of expressions. Experiment 2 replicated the results of Experiment 1 with the use of visual metaphors which had proven to be very novel through an independent study. We discuss the implications of these results for current theories of metaphor comprehension, as well as for the embodied approach to con-cepts. We also advance some conjectures about the resources and mechanisms by which blind participants might succeed in making sense of visual metaphors