Abstract
In three tasks (similarity rating, feature production, sentence judgment), respondents were asked to exploit the metaphoric potential of either visual or verbal object pairs. The results showed that respondents rated the similarity of visual pairs higher than verbal pairs. Respondents also produced more perceptual and conceptual correspondences between the objects in the visual than in the verbal version. These results suggest that the metaphoric potential of pictures is probably at least as high as that of words.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Bi-annual conference of the Special Interest Group Text and Graphics Comprehension of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI) |
| Editors | K. Scheiter |
| Place of Publication | Tübingen |
| Publisher | [s.n.] |
| Pages | 1-5 |
| Publication status | Published - 2010 |