Tomohiro Taira
Osaka City University
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Metaphor and Symbol | 2012
Tomohiro Taira; Takashi Kusumi
Meaning activation and suppression are used for metaphor comprehension, especially for the categorization, which is related to the vehicles conventionality and metaphors interactivity. In the categorization, the vehicle in a metaphor activates the metaphor-relevant meaning, but suppresses the metaphor-irrelevant meaning. However, the relationships between the strength of activation/suppression and the factors that predict the categorization have not been sufficiently examined. In addition, the previous studies did not show the meaning process of topic in metaphor comprehension. Our two experiments examined the meaning process of both topic and vehicle in metaphor comprehension by using a priming method and a meaningfulness decision task. Our experiments revealed that only the highly interactive metaphor with highly conventional vehicle activates the metaphor-relevant meaning in the vehicle, but that all metaphors suppress the metaphor-irrelevant meaning. We also revealed that the topic both as metaphor-relevant meaning and as metaphor-irrelevant meaning is activated in metaphor comprehension.
Cognitive Science | 2011
Tomohiro Taira; Takashi Kusumi
The Japanese journal of cognitive psychology | 2009
Tomohiro Taira; Keiko Nakamoto; Hideki Kidoguchi; Yota Kimura; Kohei Tsunemi; Takashi Kusumi
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society | 2009
Takashi Kusumi; Tomohiro Taira
Cognitive Science | 2017
Tomohiro Taira
Cognitive Science | 2015
Tomohiro Taira
Cognitive Science | 2013
Tomohiro Taira
Cognitive Science | 2012
Tomohiro Taira; Takashi Kusumi; Akira Utsumi
Japanese Journal of Psychology | 2011
Tomohiro Taira; Takashi Kusumi
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society | 2010
Tomohiro Taira; Takashi Kusumi