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The body and the fading away of abstract concepts and words: a sign language analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 One of the most important challenges for embodied and grounded theories of cognition concerns the representation of abstract concepts, such as freedom. Many embodied theories of abstract concepts have been proposed. Some proposals stress the similarities
Anna M Borghi +3 more
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Merging affordances and (abstract) concepts
, 2022 The notion of affordance posits important challenges for the investigation of language and abstract concepts. Studies on affordances and language indicate that language is grounded in the sensorimotor system and also that language filters and selects ...
Anna M. Borghi
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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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Investigation of the image schemas of the “torment” in the holy Quran from a cognitive perspective [PDF]
تحقیقات علوم قرآن و حدیث, 2018 Cognitive linguistics is a branch of linguistic knowledge that considers language as a tool for the order, organization, processing and transmission of information and examines the relationship between languages, man, his mind and his physical and social
Mahdi Abedi Jazini +2 more
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Chapter 11. Abstract concepts in development
, 2019 For young children, grasping abstract concepts and words poses a challenge. This chapter reports a case-study in which I discuss the abstract concepts expressed by complex words (440 types) by a Swedish girl (1–3 years).
Maria Rosenberg, Rosenberg, Maria,
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Varieties of abstract concepts and their grounding in perception or action
Open Psychology, 2020 For a very long time, theorizing in the cognitive sciences was dominated by the assumption that abstract concepts, which lack a perceivable referent, can only be handled by amodal or verbal linguistic representations.
Kiefer Markus, Harpaintner Marcel
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The challenge of abstract concepts [PDF]
, 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
Castelfranchi, Cristiano +7 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The study of emotional concepts stands at a very interesting intersection between the theoretical debate about the nature of emotions and the debate about the nature of processing concrete concepts and abstract concepts.
Mauricio González-Arias +1 more
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Is the acoustic modality relevant for abstract concepts? A study with Exstrinsic Simon task.
, 2019 An emerging class of theories of knowledge assumes that the representation and processing of concepts is achieved by reactivating multiple aspects of experience.
Scerrati, Elisa +8 more
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Embodied cognition, abstract concepts, and body manipulation
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Current approaches on cognition hold that concrete concepts are grounded in concrete experiences. There is no consensus, however, as to whether this is equally true for abstract concepts.
Katinka eDijkstra +3 more
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