The Development of Metaphor Comprehension and Its Relationship with Relational Verbal Reasoning and Executive Function.

ABSTRACT: Our main objective was to analyse the different contributions of relational verbal reasoning (analogical and class inclusion) and executive functioning to metaphor comprehension across development. We postulated that both relational reasoning and executive functioning should predict individual and developmental differences. However, executive functioning would become increasingly involved when metaphor comprehension is highly demanding, either because of the metaphors' high difficulty (relatively novel metaphors in the absence of a context) or because of the individual's special processing difficulties, such as low levels of reading experience or low semantic knowledge. Three groups of participants, 11-year-olds, 15-year-olds and young adults, were assessed in different relational verbal r

SUBMITTER: Carriedo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4783029 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature