title: Metaphor-based schemas and text representations: making connections through conceptual metaphors.
abstract: Four experiments were conducted to examine the role of metaphor-based schemas in text comprehension and representation. In Experiment 1, schemas facilitated recognition judgements for schema-related sentences that had been presented in a text. Similar facilitation was found for the recognition of individual words in Experiments 2, 3, and 4. The results are interpreted as evidence for the use of metaphor-based schemas to link elements within a text representation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors.forename: D W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Allbritton
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: McKoon
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Gerrig
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics