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The Semantic Richness of Abstract Concepts
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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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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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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Discover Psychology, 2022 This theoretical article looks at the process of understanding abstract concepts from the perspective of distributed models of conceptual representation.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Danyal Farsani
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Abstract and concrete concepts in conversation
Scientific Reports, 2022 Concepts allow us to make sense of the world. Most evidence on their acquisition and representation comes from studies of single decontextualized words and focuses on the opposition between concrete and abstract concepts (e.g., “bottle” vs. “truth”).
Caterina Villani +4 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.
Pecher D, Zeelenberg R.
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G. E. Moore on Concepts and Judgment
Análisis Filosófico, 2021 In “The Nature of Judgment” (1899), G. E. Moore defends the strange thesis according to which “[i]t seems necessary… to regard the world as formed of concepts”.
José Sebastián Briceño Domínguez
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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 ...
Shea N.
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NeuroImage, 2022 Refined grounded cognition accounts propose that abstract concepts might be grounded in brain circuits involved in mentalizing. In the present event-related potential (ERP) study, we compared the time course of neural processing in response to ...
Markus Kiefer +2 more
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