Michael Chorost's Article Your Brain On Metaphors

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On September 1, 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education published the article Your Brain on Metaphors by Michael Chorost. The author argues about how neuroscientists use the technology of brain scanners to observe how the brain behaves when it processes metaphors. Chorost presents and organizes the studies in such a way that an studie sounds reliable and credible but followed by another studies supporting or contradicting it. In 1980, linguist George Lakoff and the philosopher Mark Johnson showed in Metaphors We Live By that metaphor is a fundamental component in language. The metaphor "He is out of sight." which compares the visual field with a container, was not recognized as a metaphor until Lakoff and Johnson used it as an example. Obviously,

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