The role of working memory in metaphor production and comprehension.

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Making creative metaphors: The importance of fluid intelligence for creative thought (2012, background): “The mechanics of metaphor production are just beginning to receive attention (see Chiappe & Chiappe, 2007; Pierce & Chiappe, 2009), but models of metaphor comprehension provide insight into how people might compose metaphors.”
Numerosity, Abstraction, and the Emergence of Symbolic Thinking (2012, background): “Chiappe and Chiappe (2007) found that the ability to generate metaphors and the ability to understand increasingly complex metaphors is highly dependent on the inhibitory aspect of the executive functions of the PFC (see Coolidge and Wynn 2001 for a more detailed description of these functions in…”
Impact of Working Memory Constraints on Speech Monitoring in Healthy Children (2013, background): “In adults, working memory uniquely predicted significant variability in oral metaphor production, a language task thought to be more challenging, when vocabulary knowledge and exposure print materials were controlled (Chiappe & Chiappe, 2007).”