Mai-Thi Ho
BASc Cognitive Science
Community Scholar
2025
Guardian of the Plants @ B21
The Cognitive Phrased in the Physical
Community Scholar
2025

Background
“I’m afraid of change”
I identify metaphors in everyday language so that slowly, I may accept the ever presence of instability, and uncertainty.
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I write stories of basic universal experiences:
The game of balancing on one foot
The walk from the metro station to Trottier building
The act of looking out the window
I then show how these physical experiences provide the frame and language to navigate the cognitive and emotional, like in learning and reading.
Related keyword: Conceptual metaphor theory