In view of the dependence of metaphor on context and extensive knowledge, and the myriad difficulties still confronting all aspects of language understanding, it is not surprising that no general system for processing metaphor in context exists, let alone for using metaphor creatively.
The site editor uses familiar word processing UI metaphors to make it easy for anyone to create a site.
This affective-based 'experiential system' encodes reality in images, metaphors and narratives, rapidly processing and generating an immediate response that often determines the decision outcome.
Our results, obtained from PCA of the fMRI data indicate that the right homologue of Wernicke's area has a special role in processing novel metaphors.
This is expressed as more efficient and faster convergence in those processing streams and provides a nice metaphor for attention.
It has been proposed that difficulties with metaphors may be attributed to difficulties in processing language in the right hemisphere [ 53].
Furthermore, when describing the interactive effects of the inherent mode of processing information and instructional format (the wholist-analytic continuum): 1. Wholists perform better when given graphical metaphors than when receiving the text- only variety 2.
It is concluded that we should consider replacing the metaphor of information processing for intelligent systems by the one of sensory-motor coordination.
Recent neuroimaging evidence, however, is more equivocal on the question of the laterality of nonliteral language, because some studies have confirmed RH dominance (Mashal, Faust, Hendler, & Jung-Beeman, 2007) and others LH dominance (Lee & Dapretto, 2006; Mashal, Faust, Hendler, & Jung-Beeman, 2009; Rapp, Leube, Erb, Grodd, & Kircher, 2007) in processing metaphors.
