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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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Semantic size of abstract concepts: it gets emotional when you can’t see it [PDF]
, 2013 Size is an important visuo-spatial characteristic of the physical world. In language processing, previous research has demonstrated a processing advantage for words denoting semantically 'big' (e.g., jungle) versus 'small' (e.g., needle) concrete objects.
Sereno, Margaret E. +32 more
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Neurocognitive architecture of the semantics of abstract concepts
, 2021 The organization of conceptual knowledge at a functional and neural level in human semantic long-term memory is a matter of intensive debates. While traditional views claim that conceptual knowledge is represented in a unitary system independent of ...
Harpaintner, Marcel
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Clinic and pathophysiology of false sensory perceptions in the scientific views of Viktor Kandinsky
Обозрение психиатрии и медицинской психологии имени В.М. Бехтерева, 2023 In the monograph «Kritische und klinische Betrachtungen im Gebiete der Sinnestäuschungen» (1885) and in its Russian version «On pseudohallucinations» (1890) V.Kh.
E. V. Snedkov +2 more
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Is there a semantic system for abstract words? [PDF]
, 2013 Two views on the semantics of concrete words are that their core mental representations are feature-based or are reconstructions of sensory experience. We argue that neither of these approaches is capable of representing the semantics of abstract words ...
Richard P. Cooper +5 more
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Evidence for the Concreteness of Abstract Language: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies
Brain Sciences, 2021 The neural mechanisms subserving the processing of abstract concepts remain largely debated. Even within the embodiment theoretical framework, most authors suggest that abstract concepts are coded in a linguistic propositional format, although they do ...
Nicola Del Maschio +3 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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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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