Omid Khatin-Zadeh
Biographic Data
| ID | 908685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Omid Khatin-Zadeh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Omid |
| FAMILY NAME | Khatin-Zadeh |
| SIGNATURE | KHATIN-ZADEH O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Electronic Science and Technology of China |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5294-9777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond Representation: Metaphor as a Mechanism for Interpersonal Reconstruction of Embodied Experience
A dual-process account of metaphorical embodiment
How gestural simulation can enhance mental arithmetic operations
Embodied experience of Life and Death across languages: Perceptual and action-based norms
Understanding how highly abstract concepts are grounded in bodily experience remains a central challenge in embodied cognition and language research. This study investigates the embodied representation of the highly abstract concepts LIFE and DEATH across Persian, German, and English, combining a cross-linguistic sensorimotor norming approach with an analysis of socio-cognitive predictors of embodiment. Native speakers of the three languages rate…
Metaphoric and Gestural Descriptions of Out-of-Body Experiences by Persian Subjects
The phenomena of out-of-body experience (OBE) and near-death experience (NDE) have attracted increasing research interest. In this study, we used a set of videos to examine verbal and gestural descriptions of a group of people talking about their OBE experiences. Two chi-square tests were used to find out what type of sentences and what type of gestures were more frequently used to describe normally-possible and normally-impossible OBE events. Th…
Empowering teacher education with jigsaw techniques: Insights from language learners’ listening tasks
Developing a sustainable education requires consideration of social and psychological factors in the classroom. One such implementation is the jigsaw technique, a cooperative approach that is less frequently investigated. This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of jigsaw listening techniques in teaching advanced learners of English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Participants were divided into two groups: jigsaw group or diagnostic group. To a…
Embodied and dis-embodied affordances in mathematics education
In this paper, we discuss a two-way mechanism for acquiring mathematical knowledge: dis-embodied-to-embodied and embodied-to-dis-embodied shifts. Shifting from an embodied representation to a dis-embodied representation enables mathematics learners to discover general rules and patterns that can be applied to a wide range of mathematical problems, while shifting from a dis-embodied representation to an embodied representation allows mathematics l…
How Gestural Representation of Metaphor Schema Facilitates Metaphor Comprehension in Congruent Gesture-Aligned Conditions: An Embodied Metaphor Processing Perspective
It has been argued that many metaphors are understood through the mapping of an image-schematic structure from the source onto the target. This image-schematic structure can be depicted by a gesture that is called gestural depiction of metaphor schema. In this study, we tried to find out how metaphor schema’s gestural depiction may affect metaphor comprehension. Three groups of participants made judgments on the acceptability of the same set of m…
The role of executive functions in symbolic and situational mathematical abilities
Embodiment and Gestural Simulation of the Definite Article
In this study, we examined mental simulation and gestural embodiment of the definite article ( the ) by analyzing gestures produced by presenters talking about a variety of subjects. We used a Chi-square test to find out what type of gesture occurred more frequently with the definite article. The results showed that the number of pointing gestures that occurred with definite articles used before already-mentioned nouns was significantly higher th…
Propositional vs. Imagistic Modes in Metaphoric Creativity
Dynamic Mathematical Processing Through Symbolic, Situational, and Verbal Representations
Metaphorical emergence through propositional and imagistic modes of metaphor processing
Bodily events in metaphorical embodiment of stress relief
Embodiment and gestural realization of ergative verbs
Schematic Embodiment of Perseverance in Persian
The Role of Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions in Metaphorical Embodiment
The role of Mathematical Semiotic Signs in Enhancing Working Memory and Inhibition as the Components of Executive Functions
Gestures Enhance Executive Functions for the Understating of Mathematical Concepts
Distributed embodiment of the Persian term dæqi: Qæn in Forward Gestures
Research on metaphor processing during the past five decades: A bibliometric analysis
Metaphor processing has been the subject of extensive research over the past five decades. A systematic review of metaphor processing publications through bibliometric tools can provide a clear overview of research on metaphor processing. In this study, we used the CiteSpace bibliometric tool to conduct a systematic review of publications related to metaphor processing. A total of 3271 works published and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) were …
Motion events in English textbooks: A cross-linguistic analysis of Path
Understanding how motion events are encoded and retrieved across languages has significant implications for language teaching, learning, and cognitive linguistics. However, there is hardly any research in this area comparing the motion-related lexical patterning of English textbooks. To this end, this research was conducted to fill this gap. Primarily, we investigated the motion-related patterns in three textbooks taught in countries with differe…
Culture in English Language Teaching: A curricular evaluation of English textbooks for foreign language learners
A critical assessment of the current systematical planning and an in-depth review of the teaching materials efficiently improve fine educational materials to the benefit of developed learning and teaching contexts. In some countries, such as Iran, that belong to the expanding circle, local book writers provide English teaching materials that may ignore sociopragmatic language components, particularly culture. There is a blind spot and massive gap…
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: Measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states
This study measured hand and head action strengths of eight typical emotional states using an authentic but implicit emotion elicitation task. Participants listened to and then retold five stories in which eight typical emotional states were experienced by the narrators. The number of hand and head gestures that occur naturally while experiencing an emotional state was used as an index to determine the hand and head action strength of that emotio…
Gestural Simulation of Motion Verbs
We aimed to investigate how the path of a motion verb is mentally simulated and realized in gestures when it is encoded in path-joined motion verbs (e.g., “enter the house”), path-disjoined motion verbs (e.g., “go into the house”), and pathless motion verbs (e.g., “walk in the street”). We conducted 2 studies to answer this question. In Study 1, we analyzed gestures produced by presenters in a set of YouTube videos. We used several chi-square tes…
Gestures Enhance Executive Functions for the Understating of Mathematical Concepts
The Role of Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions in Metaphorical Embodiment
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions
The role of Mathematical Semiotic Signs in Enhancing Working Memory and Inhibition as the Components of Executive Functions
Homo-schematic Metaphors: A Study of Metaphor Comprehension in Three Different Priming Conditions
Metaphorical emergence through propositional and imagistic modes of metaphor processing
Metaphors of time across cultures
The Impact of Metaphorical Prime on Metaphor Comprehension Processes
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the understanding of a metaphor is influenced by a metaphorical prime. Participants of the study were 30 undergraduate students of Chabahar Maritime University. An experiment was conducted in which the participants were expected to make judgements on the sensicality of 10 metaphors in two phases. In the no-prime condition, metaphors were not preceded by any prime. In the metaphor-prime …
Embodied concept mapping: Blending structure-mapping and embodiment theories
Metaphors are cognitive and linguistic tools that allow reasoning. They enable the understanding of abstract domains via elements borrowed from concrete ones. The underlying mechanism in metaphorical mapping is the manipulation of concepts. This article proposes another view on what concepts are and their role in metaphor and reasoning. That is, based on current neuroscientific and behavioural evidence, it is argued that concepts are grounded in …
Why are Motions Effective in Describing Emotions
The domain of motion events is widely used to metaphorically describe abstract concepts, particularly emotional states. Why motion events are effective for describing abstract concepts is the question that this article intends to answer. In the literature of the field, several reasons have been suggested to be behind the suitability of motion events for describing these concepts, such as high concreteness of motion events, their high imageability…
Abstract metaphorical classes: A perspective from distributed models of conceptual representations
This article looks at the semantic space of abstract and concrete concepts from the perspective of distributed models of conceptual representations. It focuses on abstract metaphorical classes and the mechanisms through which these concepts are processed. When the metaphor X is a Y is understood, X is included in the abstract metaphorical class of Y. This metaphorical class is abstract because the most of semantic features of Y are filtered out t…
The Impact of Metaphorical Prime on Metaphor Comprehension Processes
The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which the understanding of a metaphor is influenced by a metaphorical prime. Participants of the study were 30 undergraduate students of Chabahar Maritime University. An experiment was conducted in which the participants were expected to make judgements on the sensicality of 10 metaphors in two phases. In the no-prime condition, metaphors were not preceded by any prime. In the metaphor-prime …
Cognitive processes involved in metaphor aptness
This article looks at metaphor aptness from the perspective of the class-inclusion model of metaphor comprehension and those models that assume a componential nature for the meanings of concepts. When the metaphor X is a Y is processed, the concept of X is included in a metaphorical class that is represented by Y, which is usually the most typical member of the metaphorical class. Degree of saliency of the defining feature in the vehicle and the …
Homo-schematic Metaphors: A Study of Metaphor Comprehension in Three Different Priming Conditions
How does Representational Transformation Enhance Mathematical Thinking
Understanding perceptual change as a movement in literal and metaphorical sentences
Results of the studies on the way language and body coordinate in communication (through language and gesture) have significant implications for language, education, and cognitive studies. However, there is a lack of convenient research in this area analyzing perceptual changes within individuals. To fill this gap, we investigated the embodied realizations of literal sentences representing perceptual changes and metaphorical sentences describing …
Psychological processes of perceiving implied motion in static images
The aim of this study was to investigate four sources of implied motion in static images (a moving object as the source of implied motion, hand movements of the image creator as the source of implied motion, past experiences of the observer as the source of implied motion, and fictive movement of a point across an image as the source of implied motion). In the experiment of the study, participants orally described 16 static images that appeared o…
A cognitive perspective on basic generic metaphors and their specific-level realizations
By conducting an examination of the mapping process in metaphor comprehension, this article suggests that a set of superficially different metaphors can be considered to be isomorphic to an underlying generic metaphor. In other words, a set of seemingly different metaphors with different domains can be categorized under a single generic metaphor. The generic metaphor is in the general form of X is in some kind of semantic relationship with Y. Whe…
Four Functions of Gesture in Promoting Thought Processes
Mechanisms involved in the formation of metaphorical classes within the framework of the class-inclusion model of metaphor comprehension
According to Glucksberg’s class-inclusion model of metaphor comprehension, metaphors are understood by the inclusion of the topic X into a metaphorical class of the vehicle Y. But what is the cognitive mechanisms through which X is included in the metaphorical class of Y? Drawing on previous literature on the roles of semantic features, metonymy, and relations in metaphor processing, this article presents a new proposal according to which every m…
Research on metaphor processing during the past five decades: A bibliometric analysis
Metaphor processing has been the subject of extensive research over the past five decades. A systematic review of metaphor processing publications through bibliometric tools can provide a clear overview of research on metaphor processing. In this study, we used the CiteSpace bibliometric tool to conduct a systematic review of publications related to metaphor processing. A total of 3271 works published and indexed in the Web of Science (WoS) were …
Motion events in English textbooks: A cross-linguistic analysis of Path
Understanding how motion events are encoded and retrieved across languages has significant implications for language teaching, learning, and cognitive linguistics. However, there is hardly any research in this area comparing the motion-related lexical patterning of English textbooks. To this end, this research was conducted to fill this gap. Primarily, we investigated the motion-related patterns in three textbooks taught in countries with differe…
Culture in English Language Teaching: A curricular evaluation of English textbooks for foreign language learners
A critical assessment of the current systematical planning and an in-depth review of the teaching materials efficiently improve fine educational materials to the benefit of developed learning and teaching contexts. In some countries, such as Iran, that belong to the expanding circle, local book writers provide English teaching materials that may ignore sociopragmatic language components, particularly culture. There is a blind spot and massive gap…
How emotions are metaphorically embodied: Measuring hand and head action strengths of typical emotional states
This study measured hand and head action strengths of eight typical emotional states using an authentic but implicit emotion elicitation task. Participants listened to and then retold five stories in which eight typical emotional states were experienced by the narrators. The number of hand and head gestures that occur naturally while experiencing an emotional state was used as an index to determine the hand and head action strength of that emotio…
Gestural Simulation of Motion Verbs
We aimed to investigate how the path of a motion verb is mentally simulated and realized in gestures when it is encoded in path-joined motion verbs (e.g., “enter the house”), path-disjoined motion verbs (e.g., “go into the house”), and pathless motion verbs (e.g., “walk in the street”). We conducted 2 studies to answer this question. In Study 1, we analyzed gestures produced by presenters in a set of YouTube videos. We used several chi-square tes…
Embodied Metaphor Processing: A Study of the Priming Impact of Congruent and Opposite Gestural Representations of Metaphor Schema on Metaphor Comprehension
This study examined the performances of three groups of participants in interpreting metaphors in three different conditions: congruent gesture-prime conditions, opposite gesture-prime conditions, and no-prime conditions. In congruent gesture-prime conditions, each metaphor was preceded by the congruent gestural representation of metaphor schema. In opposite gesture-prime conditions, each metaphor was preceded by the opposite gestural representat…
Revisiting the competition model: From formation to pedagogical implications
Language is a unique phenomenon and special enough to be treated meticulously in its analysis. Several models describe the underlying mechanisms for language acquisition and its processing. One of the most salient ones is the Competition Model suggested by Bates and MacWhinney (1982). We reviewed the CM from its initial principles proposed by Bates and MacWhinney, its adequacy and development, to its recent language learning version. This review …
Gestural embodiment of spatial schematic information in motion-based and static space-based metaphors
In this study, we examined the types of gestures that occurred with motion-based, static space-based, static object-based, and static event-based metaphors. A group of participants listened to three short stories and then retold them in front of a camera. The camera could record participants’ gestures. Each story contained two metaphors of each type. Our aim was to calculate the frequency of occurrence of metaphoric gestures with these metaphors …
The challenge of psychological processes in language acquisition: A systematic review
The Roles of Gestural and Symbolic Schematizations in Inhibition as a Component of Executive Functions
Metaphors of time across cultures
Bodily events in metaphorical embodiment of stress relief
Embodiment and gestural realization of ergative verbs
Psychology (32 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (30 works) · Computer Science (28 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (23 works) · Artificial Intelligence (23 works) · Linguistics (19 works) · Philosophy (17 works) · Cognitive psychology (16 works) · Cognition (15 works) · Cognitive science (14 works)