The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought: Metaphor, imagination, and simulation

By Raymond W. Gibbs Jr., T. Matlock. 2008

162 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation (2010, unknown): “According to Gibbs and Matlock (2008), simulation plays a central role in the comprehension of metaphor: People understand metaphors by creating an imaginative simulation of their bodies in action that mimics the events alluded to by the metaphor.”