"the ability to pay back debt, and make the debt metaphor work for your advantage depends upon your writing code that is clean enough to be able to refactor as you come to understand your problem."
Published in 2000, this article describes how teachers can make use of students' everyday metaphors using Symbolic Modelling and the 'Clean Language' of David Grove.
Atom Interface is a novel interactive visualization of single/multiple tree structures. It is based on the metaphor of electrons, atoms and molecules. For mo...
Casasanto et al 2004: time estimation was strongly affected by line length, but only for English and Indonesian speakers. Time estimation was also strongly affected by volume, but only for Greek and Spanish speakers. Neither group differed in their overall time-estimation accuracy on either task; instead, the differences between groups emerged only in the strength of the effect distance and volume have on time estimation.
G. Gao, E. Choi, Y. Choi, and L. Zettlemoyer. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, page 607--613. Brussels, Belgium, Association for Computational Linguistics, (2018)