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How abstract is risk for workers? Expertise, context and introspection in abstract concepts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Two studies were performed to test whether abstract concepts are grounded in experience and activate introspective/linguistic information. In Study 1, four groups of participants, each with different expertise in the domain of safety and
BORGHI, ANNA MARIA   +2 more
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Abstracts, abstracts, abstracts

open access: yesJon Stark making it all possible, 2020
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openaire   +1 more source

Report on the Standardization Project ``Formal Methods in Conformance Testing'' [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
This paper presents the latest developments in the “Formal Methods in Conformance Testing” (FMCT) project of ISO and ITU–T. The project has been initiated to study the role of formal description techniques in the conformance testing process.
D Hogrefe   +11 more
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Action channel switching costs in the comprehension of concrete and abstract mandarin verbs

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology
The grounding of language in perceptual–motor systems remain a central issue in embodied cognition research, particularly regarding whether abstract concepts engage sensorimotor representations in a manner similar to concrete concepts.
Zhiwei Cai, Zhongyuan Qu, Ning Fan
doaj   +1 more source

Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
According to embodied and grounded theories, concepts are grounded in sensorimotor systems. The majority of evidence supporting these views concerns concepts referring to objects or actions, while evidence on abstract concepts is more scarce.
Benassi, Mariagrazia   +4 more
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Priming the Arabic dative: Evidence for syntactic abstractness and implicit learning

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2022
Language speakers are more likely to reuse a recently experienced syntactic structure, a phenomenon known as syntactic priming. However, empirical evidence for syntactic priming comes primarily from a small subset of Indo-European languages.
Alaa Alzahrani
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Visual Representations in Undergraduate Students’ Learning about Genetic Inheritance

open access: yesEducation Sciences
Prior work has shown that many undergraduate students have misconceptions about genetic inheritance, even after they take genetics courses. Visual representations, such as pedigree diagrams, are commonly used in genetics instruction, and they help ...
David Menendez   +6 more
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The role of semantic abstractness and perceptual category in processing speech accompanied by gestures

open access: yesFrontiers 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
Arne eNagels   +3 more
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Мodeling the Equivalence of Mathematical Expressions in Initial Teaching

open access: yesInovacije u Nastavi, 2021
The notion of expression equivalence is one of the terms that has been recognized in the literature as key to understanding algebraic ideas. To understand this term, the context used as a basis for developing meaning is important, as well as the language
Milana M. Dabić Boričić   +1 more
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Affective VAD Norms for Russian: Correlation with Abstractness/Concreteness Ratings

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The relationship between the classical affective parameters valence , arousal , dominance and abstractness/concreteness indicators has been conducted on the material of a fairly large number of languages since the end of the 20th century, the ...
Yuliya A. Volskaya   +2 more
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