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Cognitive control aids in understanding ambiguous idioms. Individuals with better response inhibition, measured by the stop-signal task (SST), processed figurative language more quickly than literal language.

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  • Experimental Psychology

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  • Idiom processing involves competition between literal and figurative interpretations.
  • Cognitive control mechanisms are hypothesized to play a role in resolving semantic ambiguity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of cognitive control in processing ambiguous Hebrew idioms.
  • To examine the relationship between response inhibition and idiom comprehension speed.

Main Methods:

  • A self-paced reading task involving Hebrew sentences with ambiguous idioms.
  • A stop-signal task (SST) to measure cognitive control and response inhibition.
  • Correlation analysis between reading times and SST performance in 50 participants.

Main Results:

  • Participants read sentences with figurative idiom disambiguation significantly faster than literal ones.
  • The difference in reading speed between literal and figurative disambiguation correlated with cognitive control measures from the SST.
  • Individuals with superior inhibitory control ('Good inhibitors') demonstrated faster processing of ambiguous idioms.

Conclusions:

  • Cognitive control, specifically inhibitory control, is crucial for efficient processing of ambiguous idioms.
  • Findings suggest that the ability to inhibit irrelevant information facilitates understanding figurative language.
  • The study highlights the generalizability of cognitive control functions across different aspects of linguistic processing.