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Abstract concepts and expertise: the case of institutional concepts [PDF]
Scientific ReportsRecent views recognize that abstract concepts encompass a variety of exemplars, each relying on different dimensions, including not only sensorimotor but also inner, linguistic, and social experiences.
Caterina Villani +6 more
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God in body and space: Investigating the sensorimotor grounding of abstract concepts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 concepts are defined as concepts that cannot be experienced directly through the sensorimotor modalities. Explaining our understanding of such concepts poses a challenge to neurocognitive models of knowledge.
Suesan MacRae +4 more
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Abstract concepts and simulated competition. [PDF]
Psychol Res, 2023 AbstractTo better understand the social determinants of conceptual knowledge we devised a task in which participants were asked to judge the match between a definition (expressed in abstract or concrete terms) and a target-word (also either abstract or concrete).
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Effects of social experience on abstract concepts in semantic priming [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Humans can understand thousands of abstract words, even when they do not have clearly perceivable referents. Recent views highlight an important role of social experience in grounding of abstract concepts and sub-kinds of abstract concepts, but empirical
Zhao Yao +4 more
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Quantifying the Multidimensionality of Abstract Concepts: An Italian Database [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground: The embodied cognition approach, as applied to concrete knowledge, is centred on the role of the perceptual and motor aspects of experience.
Virginia Maria Borsa +5 more
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Modelling brain representations of abstract concepts. [PDF]
PLoS Computational Biology, 2022 conceptual representations are critical for human cognition. Despite their importance, key properties of these representations remain poorly understood. Here, we used computational models of distributional semantics to predict multivariate fMRI activity ...
Daniel Kaiser +2 more
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Taxonomic structure in a set of abstract concepts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 A large portion of human knowledge comprises “abstract” concepts that lack readily perceivable properties (e.g., “love” and “justice”). Since abstract concepts lack such properties, they have historically been treated as an undifferentiated category of ...
Andrew S. Persichetti +4 more
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The Semantic Richness of Abstract Concepts [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012 We contrasted the predictive power of three measures of semantic richness—number of features (NF), contextual dispersion (CD), and a novel measure of number of semantic neighbors (NSN)—for a large set of concrete and abstract concepts on lexical decision
Gabriel eRecchia, Michael eJones
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Metacognition and abstract concepts. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2018 The problem of how concepts can refer to or be about the non-mental world is particularly puzzling for abstract concepts. There is growing evidence that many characteristics beyond the perceptual are involved in grounding different kinds of abstract concept. A resource that has been suggested, but little explored, is introspection.
Shea N.
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Ultimate Grounding of Abstract Concepts: A Graded Account [PDF]
Journal of Cognition, 2022 ion, one of the hallmarks of human cognition, continues to be the topic of a strong debate. The primary disagreement concerns whether or not abstract concepts can be accounted for within the scope of embodied cognition.
Tim Reinboth, Igor Farkaš
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