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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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Boundaries to grounding abstract concepts. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2018 Grounded theories of cognition claim that concept representation relies on the systems for perception and action. The sensory-motor grounding of abstract concepts presents a challenge for these theories. Some accounts propose that abstract concepts are indirectly grounded via image schemas or situations.
Pecher D, Zeelenberg R.
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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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Grounding abstractness: Abstract concepts and the activation of the mouth [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 One key issue for theories of cognition is how abstract concepts, such as freedom, are represented. According to the WAT (Words As social Tools) proposal, abstract concepts activate both sensorimotor and linguistic/social information, and their ...
Anna M Borghi +2 more
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the semantic function of color in Attar's Masnavi in adaptation with lyrical paintings of Bahram Goor's Haft Gonbad [PDF]
هنر اسلامی, 2022 Poets in different periods have used the color element to induce their desired meanings and concepts. The color element is one of the key and widely used points in Attar's Masnavi.
Mohammadreza Shah Karami +2 more
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Concepts, abstractness and inner speech
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2021 We explore the role of inner speech (covert self-directed talk) during the acquisition and use of concepts differing in abstractness. Following Vygotsky, inner speech results from the internalization of linguistically mediated interactions that regulate cognition and behaviour.
Borghi A. M., Fernyhough C.
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From Affordances to Abstract Words: The Flexibility of Sensorimotor Grounding
Brain Sciences, 2021 The sensorimotor system plays a critical role in several cognitive processes. Here, we review recent studies documenting this interplay at different levels. First, we concentrate on studies that have shown how the sensorimotor system is flexibly involved
Claudia Mazzuca +6 more
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The challenge of abstract concepts. [PDF]
Psychological Bulletin, 2017 concepts ("freedom") differ from concrete ones ("cat"), as they do not have a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract concepts are represented has recently become a topic of intense debate, especially because of the spread of the embodied approach to cognition.
Borghi Anna M +5 more
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Handedness Shapes Children’s Abstract Concepts [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2011 AbstractCan children’s handedness influence how they represent abstract concepts likekindnessandintelligence? Here we show that from an early age, right‐handers associate rightward space more strongly with positive ideas and leftward space with negative ideas, but the opposite is true for left‐handers.
Casasanto, D., Henetz, T.
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