How verbal variety kills comprehension

The essay presents a novel theory of meaning-as-response inspired by the pragmatist cultural historian Morse Peckham in the mid-twentieth century. This approach is useful here in consideration of how artistic behavior can make a difference in technical ...

Guided by a polymath approach--encompassing neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and computer science, this article describes a novel `cognitive' computational mind framework for text comprehension in terms of Minsky's `Society of Mind' and `Emotion ...

Based on psychological studies which show that metaphors and other nonliteral constructions are comprehended in the same amount of time as comparable literal constructions, some researchers have concluded that literal meaning is not computed during ...