Imagining Metaphorical Actions: Embodied Simulations Make the Impossible Plausible

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 221-238

  Gibbs, Raymond W ^a   Gould, Jessica J ^a   Andric, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 85174257034     PISSN: 02762366     EISSN: 15414477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/97MK-44MV-1UUF-T5CR     Document Type: Article

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