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Claire O’Callaghan

Research Fellow in Neuroscience, University of Sydney, Australia

Claire O’Callaghan is a research fellow in neuroscience at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Written by Claire O’Callaghan

Photo of a calm lake at dusk with a hippo partially submerged, only its eyes and ears visible above the water’s surface.

Communication and language

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Metaphors open up our minds – but can also shut them down

The best analogies in poetry and science really crackle, but when do they expand our thinking and when do they constrain it?

by Claire O’Callaghan