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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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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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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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Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts [PDF]
Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 Marco Tullio Liuzza +2 more
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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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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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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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Concepts, abstractness and inner speech
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2021 Abstract 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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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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