Metaphors are physical and abstract: ERPs to metaphorically modified nouns resemble ERPs to abstract language.

Front Hum Neurosci · 2015 · PMC4322728 · PMID 25713520

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borderline significantp = 0.08so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Pairwise comparisons showed that the difference between MET-high and CL-high nouns was borderline significant ( p = 0.08) and there was no statistical difference between MET-high and AL-low nouns ( p = 0.58).

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