Khatin-Zadeh Omid, Farsani Danyal, Eskandari Zahra, Li Lin, Banaruee Hassan
School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.
Department of Teacher Education, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.
Front Psychol. 2024 Nov 25;15:1355045. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1355045. eCollection 2024.
This study investigates the role of priming in the process of metaphor comprehension focusing on both literal and gesture-based primes under congruent and opposite conditions. We conducted a two-stage experiment to explore how different priming conditions influence the cognitive processing of metaphors. In stage 1, participants made sensibility judgments on a set of metaphors in congruent literal primes (Group 1), opposite literal primes (Group 2), and no-prime conditions, with Group 3 serving as a baseline. In stage 2, participants performed the same task under congruent gesture-prime (Group 4) and opposite gesture-prime conditions (Group 5), again with Group 3 as the baseline. Sensibility judgments and reaction times were analyzed and compared across all five conditions. Findings of stage 1 reveal that congruent literal primes facilitate process of metaphor comprehension, whereas opposite literal primes delay the process of understanding the subsequent metaphor. Similarly, results of stage 2 show that congruent gesture primes facilitate the process of understanding the subsequent metaphor, while opposite gesture primes delay it. These results align with theories of embodied metaphor comprehension, highlighting the varying influences of primes on metaphor comprehension.
本研究聚焦于在一致和相反条件下的文字和基于手势的启动因素，探讨启动在隐喻理解过程中的作用。我们进行了一个两阶段实验，以探究不同的启动条件如何影响隐喻的认知加工。在第一阶段，参与者对一组处于一致文字启动（第1组）、相反文字启动（第2组）和无启动条件下的隐喻进行合理性判断，第3组作为基线。在第二阶段，参与者在一致手势启动（第4组）和相反手势启动条件下执行相同任务（第5组），同样以第3组作为基线。对所有五种条件下的合理性判断和反应时间进行了分析和比较。第一阶段的结果表明，一致的文字启动促进了隐喻理解过程，而相反的文字启动则延迟了对后续隐喻的理解过程。同样，第二阶段的结果显示，一致的手势启动促进了对后续隐喻的理解过程，而相反的手势启动则延迟了这一过程。这些结果与具身隐喻理解理论一致，突出了启动因素对隐喻理解的不同影响。
