The time courses for constructing literal and figurative interpretations of simple propositions were measured with the response signal, speed-accuracy tradeoff procedure. No differences were found in comprehension speed for literal and figurative strings in a task that required judging whether a string of words was meaningful. Likewise, no differences were found in processing speed for nonsense...

Maksud dari penulisan artikel ini adalah memberikan pemaparan atau memperkenalkan kepada masyarakat Kristiani di Indonesia mengapa mucul versi lain lagi Alkitab Kitab Suci dalam hal Indonesian Literal Translation (ILT) yang diterbitkan oleh Yayasan Lentera Bangsa. Adapun membedakan penggunaan Terjemahan Baru (TB) dan penyebutan nama Allah. Di akan dijumpai Allah sebagai “YAHWEH”. Penyebutan “YA...

Theories of embodied cognition propose that language comprehension is based on perceptual and motor processes. More specifically, it is hypothesized that neurons processing verbs describing bodily actions, and those that process the corresponding physical actions, fire simultaneously during action verb learning. Thus the concept and motor activation become strongly linked. According to this vie...

To investigate the real time processing of metaphoric adjectives, we measured participants looking behavior as they listened to sentences such as The little boy was shocked as a result of the [electrical socket/report card] in the context of a display with four images. Displays included two Unrelated pictures, a Literal picture consistent with the literal interpretation of the adjective (an ele...

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine the time-course of processing metaphorical and literal sentences in the brain. ERPs were measured to sentence-final (Experiment 1) and mid-sentence (Experiment 2) critical words (CWs) as participants read and made plausibility judgments about familiar nominal metaphors ("A is a B") as well as literal and semantically anomalous sentences of the ...