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Abstract and concrete concepts in conversation [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2022 Concepts allow us to make sense of the world. Most evidence on their acquisition and representation comes from studies of single decontextualized words and focuses on the opposition between concrete and abstract concepts (e.g., “bottle” vs. “truth”).
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Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors [PDF]
PeerJ, 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.
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Grounding abstractness: Abstract concepts and the activation of the mouth [PDF]
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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Pacifier Overuse and Conceptual Relations of Abstract and Emotional Concepts [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 This study explores the impact of the extensive use of an oral device since infancy (pacifier) on the acquisition of concrete, abstract, and emotional concepts.
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The Particularity of Emotional Words: A Grounded Approach [PDF]
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 This work focuses on emotional concepts. We define concepts as patterns of neural activation that re-enact a given external or internal experience, for example the interoceptive experience related to fear.
Claudia Mazzuca +2 more
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Aging concrete structures: a review of mechanics and concepts [PDF]
Die Bodenkultur, 2018 The safe and cost-efficient management of our built infrastructure is a challenging task considering the expected service life of at least 50 years. In spite of time-dependent changes in material properties, deterioration processes and changing demand by
Wan-Wendner Roman
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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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Brain Sciences, 2023 The concreteness effect (CE), namely a better performance with concrete compared to abstract concepts, is a constant feature in healthy people, and it usually increases in persons with aphasia (PWA).
Martina Mancano, Costanza Papagno
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Concrete constraints on abstract concepts—editorial
Psychological Research, 2022 AbstractThis special issue, "Concrete constraints of abstract concepts", addresses the role of concrete determinants, both external and internal to the human body, in acquisition, processing and use of abstract concepts while at the same time presenting to the readers an overview of methods used to assess their representation.
Anna M. Borghi +2 more
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An Actuator Concept for Adaptive Concrete Columns [PDF]
Actuators, 2021 The building industry accounts for half of the global resource consumption and roughly one third of global CO2 emissions. Global population growth and increasing resource scarcities require engineers and architects to build for more people with less material and emissions. One promising solution are adaptive load-bearing structures.
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