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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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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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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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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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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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A study and analysis of love conceptualization approaches in the poems of Yadollah Behzad Kermanshahi [PDF]
مطالعات زبانی و بلاغی, 2023 The present study examines and analyzes approaches to conceptualization of love in the work of contemporary poet Yadollah Behzad Kermanshahi. Adopting the method of description and analysis of data and relying on foundations of conceptual metaphor, this ...
Hashem Karami +2 more
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Due (o tre) sfide per l'approccio multidimensionale
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2018 Caterina Villani’s paper aims to show how, in order to solve the “challenge of abstract concepts”, the paradigm of Embodied Cognition might have to conceive of abstractness from a “multidimensional” perspective.
Agostino Pinna Pintor
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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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Moving beyond the distinction between concrete and abstract concepts [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Leo Dutriaux +2 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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