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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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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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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Content Differences for Abstract and Concrete Concepts [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2005 AbstractConcept properties are an integral part of theories of conceptual representation and processing. To date, little is known about conceptual properties of abstract concepts, such as idea. This experiment systematically compared the content of 18 abstract and 18 concrete concepts, using a feature generation task.
Xu Xu
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Action channel switching costs in the comprehension of concrete and abstract mandarin verbs [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThe 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
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Sensorimotor and interoceptive dimensions in concrete and abstract concepts
Journal of Memory and Language, 2021 Recent theories propose that abstract concepts, compared to concrete ones, might activate to a larger extent interoceptive, social and linguistic experiences. At the same time, recent research has underlined the importance of investigating how different sub-kinds of abstract concepts are represented. We report a pre-registered experiment, preceded by a
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Concrete Concepts in Basic Cognition
Philosophia (United States), 2022 It is a well-established fact in representationalist cognitive science that concrete concepts influence human perception. In radical, anti-representationalist cognitive science, however, the case is far from clear. One reason for this is that proponents of Radical Enactivism (REC) yet have to clarify whether perceptual activity involving concepts is ...
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Cross-domain semantic alignment: concrete concepts are more abstract than you think [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2023 Gary Lupyan
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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 ...
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Interoception: the forgotten modality in perceptual grounding of abstract and concrete concepts [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Dermot Lynott +2 more
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