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Berthoff, A.E. (2013) The Making of Meaning: Metaphors, Models, and Maxims for Writing Teachers. Boynton/Cook Publishers, Montclair.

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• TITLE: Metaphorical Thinking and Information Processing Ability

  AUTHORS: Cittoor Girija Navaneedhan, T. J. Kamalanabhan

  KEYWORDS: Metaphorical Thinking, Corpus Callosum, Neo Cortex

  JOURNAL NAME: Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science, Vol.4 No.10, October 28, 2014

  ABSTRACT: Practice of Metaphorical thinking in understanding given information promotes the communication of the two hemispheres by a bundle of connecting fibres, the corpus callosum at neo cortex level and through hippocampus at the level of limbic system. Hence, metaphorical thinking helps learners to make connections and develop patterns and relationships in parallel to the language as well as symbols relevant to the given information.