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How object shape affects visual metaphor processing

Lisanne van Weelden1, Alfons Maes, Joost Schilperoord

  • 1Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg, The Netherlands. l.vanweelden@uvt.nl

Experimental Psychology
|August 2, 2012
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