AUTHOR=Lakoff George 

TITLE=Mapping the brain's metaphor circuitry: metaphorical thought in everyday reason

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2014

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2014.00958

DOI=10.3389/fnhum.2014.00958

ISSN=1662-5161

ABSTRACT=<p>An overview of the basics of metaphorical thought and language from the perspective of Neurocognition, the integrated interdisciplinary study of how conceptual thought and language work in the brain. The paper outlines a theory of metaphor circuitry and discusses how everyday reason makes use of embodied metaphor circuitry.</p>