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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 2013 There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal "hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality-specific
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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Optimization of Production Parameters of Alkali-Activated Concrete
, 2021 Concrete is a frequently preferred construction material which is used in many fields and applications such as buildings, roads, tunnels, bridges, dams and harbors.
Soriano, L. +4 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 ...
Anna M Borghi +2 more
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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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Due (o tre) sfide per l'approccio multidimensionale
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2018 Caterina Villani’s paper aims to show how, in order to solve the “challenge of abstract concepts”, the paradigm of Embodied Cognition might have to conceive of abstractness from a “multidimensional” perspective.
Agostino Pinna Pintor
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Neural representation of visual concepts in people born blind
Nature Communications, 2018 How are abstract, imperceptible concepts such as ‘freedom’ represented in the brain? Here, the authors use fMRI in people born blind to compare the neural responses for abstract concepts, concrete concepts like ‘rainbow’ which in blind people lack ...
Ella Striem-Amit +3 more
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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 On the basis of previous studies revealing a processing advantage of concrete words over abstract words, the current study aimed to further explore the influence of concreteness on the integration of novel words into semantic memory with the event ...
Jinfeng Ding +5 more
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Self-Healing Concrete: Concepts, Energy Saving and Sustainability
Energies, 2023 The production of cement accounts for 5 to 7% of carbon dioxide emissions in the world, and its broad-scale use contributes to climate imbalance. As a solution, biotechnology enables the cultivation of bacteria and fungi for the synthesis of calcium ...
Bruno Augusto Cabral Roque +6 more
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Naming a Lego world. The role of language in the acquisition of abstract concepts.
PLoS ONE, 2015 While embodied approaches of cognition have proved to be successful in explaining concrete concepts and words, they have more difficulties in accounting for abstract concepts and words, and several proposals have been put forward.
Carmen Granito +2 more
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