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An ALE meta-analytical review of the neural correlates of abstract and concrete words

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2021
Several clinical studies have reported a double dissociation between abstract and concrete concepts, suggesting that they are processed by at least partly different networks in the brain.
Madalina Bucur, Costanza Papagno
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Enhancing automatic text summarisation by resolving anaphora and identifying abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Română de Informatică și Automatică
The primary goal of text summarisation is to distil the most important details and turn them into a brief version that still captures the source material’s main points.
Sanah Nashir SAYYED, Namrata MAHENDER
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Zur Rolle der kontrastiven Semantik in interkultureller Kommunikation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The present paper contains results derived from a number o f experiments on word associations done with a total of 102 German-speaking and French Canadian informants. The study included 9 adjectives, 11 concrete nouns and 10 abstract nouns but focussed
Roche, Jörg, Roussy-Parent, Mélody
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Clustering, Hierarchical Organization, and the Topography of Abstract and Concrete Nouns

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2014
The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning.
Joshua eTroche   +2 more
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Entity, event, and sensory modalities: An onto-cognitive account of sensory nouns

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Nouns in human languages mostly profile concrete and abstract entities. But how much eventive information can be found in nouns? Will such eventive information found in sensory nouns have anything to do with the cognitive representation of the basic ...
Yin Zhong   +2 more
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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal " hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality ...
Hoffman, Paul   +2 more
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Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The mass-count distinction is a morpho-syntactic distinction among nouns that is generally taken to have semantic content. This content is generally taken to reflect a conceptual, cognitive, or ontological distinction and relates to philosophical and ...
Moltmann, Friederike
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Zero-Derived Nouns in Greek

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
In this paper, we investigate zero-derived nouns based on irregular verbs in Greek. This is an under-explored area in Greek morpho-syntax, and in this paper, we will make three main contributions.
Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou
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Analysing Effects of Birth Order on Intelligence, Educational Attainment, Big Five, and Risk Aversion in an Indonesian Sample

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Personality, EarlyView., 2020
Abstract Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilution would ...
Laura J. Botzet   +2 more
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Associative Experiment on the Material of Abstractness / Concreteness Ratings: a Comparative Aspect

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
An important parameter in the studies of associative fields is the characterization of words by concreteness and Abstractness. In a recently published article we analyzed associations to 100 Abstract and concrete stimuli.
Yuliya A. Volskaya
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