Mighty metaphors: Behavioral and ERP evidence that power shifts attention on a vertical dimension

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-58

  Zanolie, Kiki ^a   Dantzig, Saskia van ^a,b   Boot, Inge ^a   Wijnen, Jasper ^c   Schubert, Thomas W ^d   Giessner, Steffen R ^a   Pecher, Diane ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Abstract concepts; Concept representation; Conceptual Metaphor Theory; Embodied cognition; Grounded cognition; N1; P1; Visual spatial attention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; METAPHOR; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 82455164105     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: 10902147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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