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Representing meaning: a feature-based model of object and action words [PDF]
, 2009 The representation of word meaning has received substantial attention in the psycholinguistic literature over the past decades, yet the vast majority of studies have been limited to words referring to concrete objects.
Vinson, D.P.
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Taxonomic structure in a set of abstract concepts
Frontiers in PsychologyA large portion of human knowledge comprises “abstract” concepts that lack readily perceivable properties (e.g., “love” and “justice”). Since abstract concepts lack such properties, they have historically been treated as an undifferentiated category of ...
Andrew S. Persichetti +4 more
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Polysemy Advantage with Abstract But Not Concrete Words
Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2014 It is a robust finding that ambiguous words are recognized faster than unambiguous words. More recent studies (e.g., Rodd et al. in J Mem Lang 46:245-266, 2002) now indicate that this ambiguity advantage may in reality be a polysemy advantage: caused by related senses (polysemy) rather than unrelated meanings (homonymy).
Jager, Bernadet, Cleland, Alexandra A.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Breast cancer remains a major cause of cancer death in women, frequently developing endocrine therapy resistance. This study demonstrates that upregulated p21‐activated kinase 1 (PAK1) activity drives resistance to tamoxifen and long‐term estrogen deprivation in ER+ breast cancer models.
Luisa Schwarzmüller +10 more
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The examination of semantic access to abstract and concrete words by means of a priming paradigm [PDF]
, 2008 Introduction: Subgroups of patients with schizophrenia or dementia are known to show distinct impairments in semantic memory for concrete words (e.g., shoe).
Grieder, M. +5 more
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The Story So Far: How Embodied Cognition Advances Our Understanding of Meaning-Making
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Meaning-making in the brain has become one of the most intensely discussed topics in cognitive science. Traditional theories on cognition that emphasize abstract symbol manipulations often face a dead end: The symbol grounding problem.
Cedric Galetzka
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NeuroImage, 2020 The examination of semantic cognition has traditionally identified word concreteness as well as valence as two of the principal dimensions in the representation of conceptual knowledge.
Karen Meersmans +7 more
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Why human connection is the true metric of research success
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Human‐centred mentorship can be shaped by mentor attributes, actions, intrinsic drive and career ambition. Drawing on reflections across Singapore and France, as well as workshop insights from FEBS‐IUBMB ENABLE 2024, this article shows that human‐centred mentorship creates the conditions for sustainable growth, well‐being and retention in research ...
Timothy Lin Yun Tan +3 more
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Brain electric fields, belief in the paranormal, and reading of emotion words [PDF]
, 2008 The present work reports two experiments on brain electric correlates of cognitive and emotional functions. (1) Studying paranormal belief, 35-channel resting EEG (10 believers and 13 skeptics) was analyzed with "Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography"
Gianotti, Lorena R. R.
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The Use of Images for Teaching Abstract Words Versus Concrete Words: A Semiotic Study [PDF]
, 2019 Semiotics has been investigated in the literature to enhance second language vocabulary acquisition. The previous studies have examined how semiotics could aid second language (L2) learner to learn concrete words.
Hassan Saleh Mahdi +1 more
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