Do monkeys think in metaphors? Representations of space and time in monkeys and humans

Cognition

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 191-202

  Merritt, Dustin J ^a   Casasanto, Daniel ^b,c,d   Brannon, Elizabeth M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Metaphor; Monkeys; Space; Time

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS MONKEY; SPACE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; THINKING; TIME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; METAPHOR; ODDS RATIO; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SPACE PERCEPTION; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 77957687457     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.08.011     Document Type: Article

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