暴雨灾害, 2021 Random statistics samples of 605 papers in 50 issues including 18 core journals and 15 provincial journals of atmospheric science show that there are about 38% of the key words or abstract writing is not standardized.
Wen DENG, Yishan LIAO, Airong MIN
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Can words be read without abstract letter identities?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Most theories of reading and writing posit a level of representation that codes abstract letter identities (ALIs) independent of the font, case, and even modality in which the letter was presented or produced (e.g., Caramazza & Hillis, 1990).
Simon Fischer-Baum
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Age Effects on Old/New Recognition Memory Involving Abstract Figures and Non-words
Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2022 Age-related memory problems posit a growing concern in our society. This study investigated the impact of age and memory strength on recognition memory of pre-experimentally unfamiliar abstract figures and non-words.
Monika Toth +2 more
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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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Distinct Functional Network Connectivity for Abstract and Concrete Mental Imagery
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 In several behavioral psycholinguistic studies, it has been shown that concrete words are processed more efficiently. They can be remembered faster, recognized better, and can be learned easier than abstract words. This fact is called concreteness effect.
Sobhan Hemati +2 more
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A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Teaching Science Communication with Graphical Abstract Assignments
Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2023 An important part of scientific training in undergraduate curriculum involves teaching students how to effectively communicate in science. Scientific writing and oral presentations are important parts of most science classes.
Swati Agrawal, Paul Ulrich
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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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EEG Correlates of Old/New Discrimination Performance Involving Abstract Figures and Non-Words
Brain Sciences, 2021 The processing of pre-experimentally unfamiliar stimuli such as abstract figures and non-words is poorly understood. Here, we considered the role of memory strength in the discrimination process of such stimuli using a three-phase old/new recognition ...
Monika Toth +2 more
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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 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-specific
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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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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