Bidirectional transfer between metaphorical related domains in implicit learning of form-meaning connections.

People can implicitly learn a connection between linguistic forms and meanings, for example between specific determiners (e.g. this, that...) and the type of nouns to which they apply. Li et al (2013) recently found that transfer of form-meaning connections from a concrete domain (height) to an abst...

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Main Authors: Xiuyan Guo, Fengying Li, Zhiliang Yang, Zoltan Dienes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3701079?pdf=render