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Development of Metaphorical Thinking: The Role of Language
"... People often talk using linguistic metaphors, and think using mental meta-phors: mappings between concrete, perceptible domains like space, force, and motion and relatively abstract, imperceptible domains like intimacy, value, and time.1 When speakers use expressions like a close friendship, a ..."
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People often talk using linguistic metaphors, and think using mental meta-phors: mappings between concrete, perceptible domains like space, force, and motion and relatively abstract, imperceptible domains like intimacy, value, and time.1 When speakers use expressions like a close friendship, a
Psychological Science 24(5) 613 –621 © The Author(s) 2013 Reprints and permission:
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The relation of space and musical pitch in the brain
"... Numerous experiments show that space and musical pitch are closely linked in people's minds. However, the exact nature of space-pitch associations and their neuronal underpinnings are not well understood. In an fMRI experiment we investigated different types of spatial representations that may ..."
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Numerous experiments show that space and musical pitch are closely linked in people's minds. However, the exact nature of space-pitch associations and their neuronal underpinnings are not well understood. In an fMRI experiment we investigated different types of spatial representations that may underlie musical pitch. Participants judged stimuli that varied in spatial height in both the visual and tactile modalities, as well as auditory stimuli that varied in pitch height. In order to distinguish between unimodal and multimodal spatial bases of musical pitch, we examined whether pitch activations were present in modality-specific (visual or tactile) versus multimodal (visual and tactile) regions active during spatial height processing. Judgments of musical pitch were found to activate unimodal visual areas, suggesting that space-pitch associations may involve modality-specific spatial representations, supporting a key assumption of embodied theories of metaphorical mental representation.
