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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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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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Analogy Between Concepts (Extended Abstract) [PDF]
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020 Analogical proportions are statements of the form “x is to y as z is to t”, where x, y, z, t are items of the same nature, or not. In this paper, we more particularly consider “relational proportions” of the form “object A has the same relationship with attribute a as object B with attribute b”. We provide a formal definition for relational proportions,
Barbot, Nelly +2 more
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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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Cogent Education, 2022 Since formal mathematics is discussed in terms of abstract symbols, many students face difficulties to acquire a clear understanding of mathematical concepts and ideas.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +2 more
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Motor Imagery Shapes Abstract Concepts [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2016 AbstractThe concepts of “good” and “bad” are associated with right and left space. Individuals tend to associate good things with the side of their dominant hand, where they experience greater motor fluency, and bad things with their nondominant side.
Juanma, de la Fuente +3 more
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Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 According to embodied and grounded theories, concepts are grounded in sensorimotor systems. The majority of evidence supporting these views concerns concepts referring to objects or actions, while evidence on abstract concepts is more scarce.
Claudia Mazzuca +4 more
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Abstract Concept Lattices [PDF]
, 2011 We present a view of abstraction based on a structure preserving reduction of the Galois connection between a language L of terms and the powerset of a set of instances O. Such a relation is materialized as an extension-intension lattice, namely a concept lattice when L is the powerset of a set P of attributes. We define and characterize an abstraction
Henry Soldano, Véronique Ventos
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A Really Good Example Helps Learning About an Abstract Concept
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023 University students are often asked to learn abstract concepts. Abstract concepts are hard to learn. Giving specific examples can help learning abstract concepts.
Ava Funkhouser, Elena Nicoladis
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