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© 2014. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

According to CMT, conceptual metaphors are static, ontological, fixed sets of partial correspondances between two conceptual domains. Statistics run on thousands of fMRI studies indicate that even fairly small brain regions are typically reused in multiple tasks, with even higher reuse probabilities if a region is involved in perception or action (Anderson et al., 2010). Anderson examines, among others, the following examples: the SNARC effect (a mental number line with magnitudes increasing from left to right), the correlation between finger representation and numerical cognition, the interaction of word and gesture, or the phonological loop in working memory. The mappings, the emergence of novel structure, the adjustment of the inputs, and everything else going on is guided by universal governing principles and competing optimality principles, by the functional requirements of the particular network of mental spaces, dictated by context and goals, and by the creativity of the individual or group who are striving to make the most of it all.

Details

Title
Conceptual mappings and neural reuse
Author
Cánovas, Cristóbal Pagán; Manzanares, Javier Valenzuela
Section
Opinion ARTICLE
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Apr 29, 2014
Publisher
Frontiers Research Foundation
e-ISSN
16625161
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2292152206
Copyright
© 2014. This work is licensed under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.