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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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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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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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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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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Associations Between Abstract Concepts: Investigating the Relationship Between Deictic Time and Valence [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The present study examines whether deictic time and valence are mentally associated, with a link between future and positive valence and a link between past and negative valence.
Barbara Kaup, Nina Scherer, Rolf Ulrich
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Abstract Concepts, Social Interaction, and Beliefs [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Anna M. Borghi +3 more
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Sound iconicity of abstract concepts: Place of articulation is implicitly associated with abstract concepts of size and social dominance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The concept of sound iconicity implies that phonemes are intrinsically associated with non-acoustic phenomena, such as emotional expression, object size or shape, or other perceptual features. In this respect, sound iconicity is related to other forms of
Jan Auracher
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