Counterintuitive Religious Ideas and Metaphoric Thinking: An Event-Related Brain Potential Study

被引:6
作者
Fondevila, Sabela [1 ]
Aristei, Sabrina [2 ]
Sommer, Werner [2 ]
Jimenez-Ortega, Laura [1 ,3 ]
Casado, Pilar [1 ,3 ]
Martin-Loeches, Manuel [1 ,3 ]
机构
[1] UCM ISCIII, Ctr Human Evolut & Behav, 5 Pab 14, Madrid 28029, Spain
[2] Humboldt Univ, Inst Psychol, Berlin, Germany
[3] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Psychobiol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
关键词
Language comprehension; Religious concepts; Metaphorical meaning; N400; ERPs; CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATION; WORLD KNOWLEDGE; ERP EVIDENCE; COMPREHENSION; RECALL; DISCOURSE; SENTENCES; LANGUAGE;
D O I
10.1111/cogs.12263
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
It has been shown that counterintuitive ideas from mythological and religious texts are more acceptable than other (non-religious) world knowledge violations. In the present experiment we explored whether this relates to the way they are interpreted (literal vs. metaphorical). Participants were presented with verification questions that referred to either the literal or a metaphorical meaning of the sentence previously read (counterintuitive religious, counterintuitive non-religious and intuitive), in a block-wise design. Both behavioral and electrophysiological results converged. At variance to the literal interpretation of the sentences, the induced metaphorical interpretation specifically facilitated the integration (N400 amplitude decrease) of religious counterintuitions, whereas the semantic processing of non-religious counterintuitions was not affected by the interpretation mode. We suggest that religious ideas tend to operate like other instances of figurative language, such as metaphors, facilitating their acceptability despite their counterintuitive nature.
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页码:972 / 991
页数:20
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