The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: The neural theory of metaphor

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Deliberate Metaphor Affords Conscious Metaphorical Cognition (2009, methodology): “…f metaphor is the proposal of the existence of so-called conceptual metaphors: extensive, systematic, complex, entrenched mappings across distinct conceptual domains that are activated during all sorts of cognitive tasks (Lakoff 1993, 2008; Lakoff & Johnso 1980, 1999; Gibbs 1994, 2006).”
Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010, background): “…it has been suggested that mirroring mechanisms involving the motor areas of the brain are involved in the processing of metaphorical expressions such as “grasping a concept” (e.g., Lakoff, 2008; Gallese & Lakoff, 2005), but the experimental evidence is inconclusive (see Aziz-Zadeh et al., 2006).”
Sensory marketing, embodiment, and grounded cognition: A review and introduction (2014, background): “Depending on theoretical perspective, metaphors are either seen as the unique driver of the observed effects (Lakoff, 2008; Lakoff & Johnson, 1999) or as expressions of the multimodal nature of mental representations (Anderson, 2010; Barsalou, 2008; Williams et al.”