Visual Metaphor and Cognition
Ojha, Amitash![Visual Metaphor and Cognition](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/185/18536928/CHSBZCOP0318536928.jpg)
The focus of this study is on visual metaphors, which are pictorial counterparts of verbal metaphors such as "The sky is crying, " or "The man is a wolf. In this study, our aim is to examine different kinds of visual metaphors: How are they generated and how are they different from verbal metaphors. We explore the difference between them at the cognitive level. We empirically show that processing of visual and verbal metaphor differs at the pe...