Engineering creativity: Prior experience modulates electrophysiological responses to novel metaphors.
Engineering creativity: Prior experience modulates electrophysiological responses to novel metaphors.
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DOI：
10.1111/psyp.13630
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发表时间：
2020-10
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
van Hell JG
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作者：
Jończyk R;Kremer GE;Siddique Z;van Hell JG
新的隐喻语言使用通过产生和理解可能从未听说过的有意义的语言表达来增强人类的创造力。然而，现有的电生理学研究表明，新的隐喻理解是认知成本高的，因为它需要整合信息，从遥远的相关概念。在这里，我们调查，如果这样的认知成本可能会减少作为一个因素的先验领域知识。为此，我们要求工程和非工程专业的学生阅读理解字面，小说隐喻，和异常的句子有关的工程或一般知识，同时进行脑电图记录。在阅读每一个句子时，参与者被要求判断这个句子的意思是否是原创的（新颖性判断），以及它是否有意义（感觉性判断）。当跨组崩溃时，我们的研究结果表明，N400的调制与N400是最大的异常，其次是隐喻，和字面的句子。组间比较显示，N400对新的隐喻句子有镜像效应，工程师的N400减弱，非工程师的N400增强。重要的是，计划的比较表明，相对于非工程师，工程师的工程新隐喻的N400振幅降低，指出了先前知识对隐喻处理的影响。然而，这种减少是在没有句子类型×知识×小组互动的情况下观察到的。总而言之，我们的研究提供了新的证据，表明先验领域知识可能对创造性语言理解产生直接影响。本研究提供了新的证据，先验知识有助于理解新的隐喻句，语言创造力的指标。因此，这项研究有助于，桥梁，比喻语言处理和创造力的研究领域。
Novel metaphorical language use exemplifies human creativity through production and comprehension of meaningful linguistic expressions that may have never been heard before. Available electrophysiological research demonstrates, however, that novel metaphor comprehension is cognitively costly, as it requires integrating information from distantly related concepts. Herein, we investigate if such cognitive cost may be reduced as a factor of prior domain knowledge. To this end, we asked engineering and nonengineering students to read for comprehension literal, novel metaphorical, and anomalous sentences related to engineering or general knowledge, while undergoing EEG recording. Upon reading each sentence, participants were asked to judge whether or not the sentence was original in meaning (novelty judgment) and whether or not it made sense (sensicality judgment). When collapsed across groups, our findings demonstrate a gradual N400 modulation with N400 being maximal in response to anomalous, followed by metaphorical, and literal sentences. Between‐group comparisons revealed a mirror effect on the N400 to novel metaphorical sentences, with attenuated N400 in engineers and enhanced N400 in non‐engineers. Critically, planned comparisons demonstrated reduced N400 amplitudes to engineering novel metaphors in engineers relative to non‐engineers, pointing to an effect of prior knowledge on metaphor processing. This reduction, however, was observed in the absence of a sentence type × knowledge × group interaction. Altogether, our study provides novel evidence suggesting that prior domain knowledge may have a direct impact on creative language comprehension. This study provides novel evidence that prior knowledge facilitates interpretation of novel metaphorical sentences, an index of linguistic creativity. As such, this study contributes to, and bridges, the fields of figurative language processing and creativity research.
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DOI：
10.1037/a0035658
发表时间：
2014-05-01
影响因子：
2.6
作者：
Filik, Ruth;Leuthold, Hartmut;Page, Jemma
通讯作者：
Page, Jemma
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Coulson, S;Van Petten, C
通讯作者：
Van Petten, C
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
CHWILLA, DJ;BROWN, CM;HAGOORT, P
通讯作者：
HAGOORT, P
影响因子：
4.6
作者：
Beese C;Meyer L;Vassileiou B;Friederici AD
通讯作者：
Friederici AD
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Groppe DM;Urbach TP;Kutas M
通讯作者：
Kutas M