@misc{cogprints1569, editor = {T. Simon and R. Scholes}, title = {Metaphor and Mental Duality}, author = {Stevan Harnad}, publisher = {Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum}, year = {1982}, pages = {189--211}, journal = {Language, mind and brain}, keywords = {cognition, learning, perception, language, metaphor, creativity, verbal, mental duality, analogy, analog representation, laterality}, url = {http://cogprints.org/1569/}, abstract = {Given certain premises, there are both empirical and logical reasons for expecting a certain division of labor in the processing of information by the human brain: a functional bifurcation into what may be called, to a first approximation, "verbal" and "nonverbal" modes of information- processing. This dichotomy is not quite satisfactory, however, for metaphor, which in its most common guise is a literary, and hence a fortiori a "verbal" phenomenon, may in fact be more a function of the "nonverbal" than the "verbal" mode.} }