Author(s): Pissani L; de Almeida RG;

Familiarity, aptness, concreteness, metaphoricity, and structural norms for 300 two-word English metaphorical expressions (e.g., broken heart, early bird), presented in sentence context and in isolation, were obtained from 164 participants. Familiarity was conceived as the extent to which participants had previously heard or read that expression. Aptness ...

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Author(s): Antal C; de Almeida RG;

A sentence such as We finished the paper is indeterminate with regards to what we finished doing with the paper. Indeterminate sentences constitute a test case for two major issues regarding language comprehension: (1) how we compose sentence meaning; and (2) what is retained in memory about what we read in context over time. In an eye-tracking experiment ...

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Author(s): de Almeida RG, Riven L, Manouilidou C, Lungu O, Dwivedi VD, Jarema G, Gillon B

Front Hum Neurosci. 2016;10:614 Authors: de Almeida RG, Riven L, Manouilidou C, Lungu O, Dwivedi VD, Jarema G, Gillon B

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