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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.
Simon Steffen +5 more
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Verbal vs. visual coding in modified mental imagery map exploration task [PDF]
Psihologija, 2011 We modified classical mental exploration task introducing verbal modality. Consequently, we could test robust effects from lexical processing in an attempt to understand whether the underlying mental representation is strictly propositional.
Ćirović Ivana, Zdravković Sunčica
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Evidence for the Concreteness of Abstract Language: A Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies
Brain Sciences, 2021 The neural mechanisms subserving the processing of abstract concepts remain largely debated. Even within the embodiment theoretical framework, most authors suggest that abstract concepts are coded in a linguistic propositional format, although they do ...
Nicola Del Maschio +3 more
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Conformity Control of Concrete Based on the “Concrete Family” Concept [PDF]
Beton- und Stahlbetonbau, 2008 This paper describes how the concept of concrete families can be used for the conformity control of concrete strength. The principles of the concept are explained and an original probabilistic evaluation is introduced. A parameter evaluation approach is explained and the guidelines and conformity criteria for concrete families in EN 206-1 are discussed.
Caspeele, Robby, Taerwe, Luc
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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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Discover Psychology, 2022 This theoretical article looks at the process of understanding abstract concepts from the perspective of distributed models of conceptual representation.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Danyal Farsani
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The study of emotional concepts stands at a very interesting intersection between the theoretical debate about the nature of emotions and the debate about the nature of processing concrete concepts and abstract concepts.
Mauricio González-Arias +1 more
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The concreteness of attributes in concept learning strategies [PDF]
Memory & Cognition, 1973 Ss were presented with conjunctive concept learning tasks using geometric stimuh in two experiments and using combinations of abstract characteristics in two other experiments. Evidence indicated that the conjunctive hypotheses for geometric stimuli were not mediated by component values but were sampled as unitized wholes.
I D, Nahinsky +3 more
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The cultural context of development: language as a means for thinking and problem-solving
South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2011 The present study, located in the socio-cultural tradition of research in developmental psychology, uses experimental tasks, adapted from the groundbreaking Lurian study (Luria, 1979, 1976) to investigate South African children’s acquisition and ...
Azwihangwisi Muthivhi
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Abstract words processing induces parasympathetic activation: A thermal imaging study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 words (e.g., freedom) compose a significant part of speech. Despite this, learning them is complicated. Abstract concepts collect more heterogeneous exemplars and are more detached from sensory modalities than concrete concepts. Recent views propose that,
Melania Paoletti +8 more
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