Emotion Regulation is Associated with Increases in Linguistic Measures of Both Psychological Distancing and Abstractness. [PDF]
Affect SciEmerging research shows that distancing one’s language by reducing the use of “I” and present-tense verbs is associated with more successful emotion regulation.
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Beyond concreteness: why word specificity is the missing piece in theories on embodied language comprehension [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe concreteness effect has long been associated with embodied theories of language, which propose that concrete words are easier to process than abstract ones because they more directly engage perceptual and motor simulations.
Marianna Bolognesi
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Concreteness/abstractness ratings for two-character Chinese words in MELD-SCH.
PLoS ONE, 2020 The concreteness-abstractness continuum is considered a primary dimension in the representation of semantic networks. Its theoretical importance and clinical significance are widely acknowledged.
Xu Xu, Jiayin Li
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Touching soft materials slows affective visual processing [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPresently, there is extensive evidence of multisensory integration in tactile and visual processing. While it has been shown that multisensory interaction between touch and vision influences many cognitive processes, such as object recognition, the role ...
Achille Pasqualotto +6 more
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Abstractness emerges progressively over the second year of life [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Abstract words, terms not referring to here and now, are acquired slowly in infancy. They are difficult to acquire as they are more detached from sensory modalities than concrete words.
Francesca Bellagamba +5 more
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Thinking climate change through the lens of abstractness: a multi-task and multi-setting investigation into generational differences in the conceptualization of ecology [PDF]
Cognitive ResearchTo face ecological disasters, one of the major emergencies of modern times, fostering pro-environmental behaviors appears crucial. While research explored various behavioral drivers, few studies addressed the conceptual representation of ecological ...
Ilenia Falcinelli +12 more
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Grounding abstractness: Abstract concepts and the activation of the mouth
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 One key issue for theories of cognition is how abstract concepts, such as freedom, are represented. According to the WAT (Words As social Tools) proposal, abstract concepts activate both sensorimotor and linguistic/social information, and their ...
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Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013 Space and shape are distinct perceptual categories. In language, perceptual information can also be used to describe abstract semantic concepts like a ‘rising income’ (space) or a ‘square personality’ (shape). Despite being inherently concrete, co-speech
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Can Creative Thinking Predict Academic Success in Medical Education? Correlating Torrance Test of Creative Thinking Scores and Five-year GPAs of Japanese Medical Students [version 1; peer review: 2 approved] [PDF]
MedEdPublishBackground This study determined the correlation between creative thinking aptitude, measured by the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking–Figural (TTCT–F), and five-year academic achievement.
Marcellus Nealy +4 more
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Abstractness and social interaction through a new lens: the potentialities of hyperscanning in naturalistic settings [PDF]
Frontiers in NeuroscienceIlenia Falcinelli +3 more
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