Abstract images and words can convey the same meaning [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 Intuitively, deriving meaning from an abstract image is a uniquely human, idiosyncratic experience. Here we show that, despite having no universally recognised lexical association, abstract images spontaneously elicit specific concepts conveyed by words,
Jan Rouke Kuipers +2 more
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Abstract Words as Social Tools: Which Necessary Evidence? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Anna M. Borghi +9 more
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The role of emotionality in the acquisition of new concrete and abstract words [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 A processing advantage for emotional words relative to neutral words has been widely demonstrated in the monolingual domain (e.g., Kuperman, Estes, Brysbaert, & Warriner, 2014).
Pilar eFerré +3 more
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The acquisition of abstract words by young infants. [PDF]
Cognition, 2013 Young infants' learning of words for abstract concepts like 'all gone' and 'eat,' in contrast to their learning of more concrete words like 'apple' and 'shoe,' may follow a relatively protracted developmental course. We examined whether infants know such abstract words. Parents named one of two events shown in side-by-side videos while their 6-16-month-
Bergelson E, Swingley D.
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Neural correlates of visualizations of concrete and abstract words in preschool children: A developmental embodied approach [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 The neural correlates of visualization underlying word comprehension were examined in preschool children. On each trial, a concrete or abstract word was delivered binaurally (part 1: post-auditory visualization), followed by a four-picture array (a ...
Amedeo eD'angiulli +2 more
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The effect of emotional valence on concrete and abstract words in L2 lexical processing among Chinese–English learners [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionEmotional valence influences word processing, and this effect is modulated by word concreteness, but findings remain inconsistent in L2 contexts—especially among Chinese-English learners.MethodsBased on the Embodied Cognition Theory, we ...
Ying Zhang, Zurui Zhang
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Love, laugh, life—the effect of empathy on the processing of emotion-label, emotion-laden and neutral abstract words [PDF]
Scientific ReportsWhile there is accumulating evidence that emotional words are processed faster than neutral words, findings regarding processing differences between emotion-label and emotion-laden words are inconsistent, potentially due to uncontrolled word- or ...
Linda Espey, Laura Bechtold, Marta Ghio
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A Future of Words: Language and the Challenge of Abstract Concepts
Journal of Cognition, 2020 The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded theories need to face, i.e., that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired, represented, and used.
Anna M. Borghi
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Investigating social grounding of abstract words. [PDF]
The semantic representation of abstract words is a topic of discussion within the embodied cognition framework. Existing theories propose the involvement of emotional, linguistic, and social experiences in abstract word representation. Focusing on ‘socialness' — a variable with limited empirical evidence — our study explores whether abstract ...
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Words as tools and the problem of abstract words meanings [PDF]
, 2009 This paper proposes an extension of existing embodied views of cognition in order to account for the linguistic experience and its complexity. We claim that embodied views should be extended in order to consider not only language grounding but the social and normative aspects of language as well. Motor resonance mechanisms based on mirror neurons are a
BORGHI, ANNA MARIA, Cimatti F.
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