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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 ...
Hoffman, Paul +2 more
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An Engineering Approach towards Action Refinement [PDF]
, 1995 In the abstract modelling of distributed systems we may need methods to replace abstract behaviours by more concrete behaviours which are closer to implementation mechanisms.
Ferreira Pires, Luis +4 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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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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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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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Plenty of studies have been conducted to reveal neurocognitive underpinnings of conceptual representation. Compared with that of concrete concepts, the neurocognitive correlates of abstract concepts remain elusive.
Jinfeng Ding +7 more
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Concrete Concepts in Basic Cognition
Philosophia, 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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PLoS ONE, 2021 Over the last decade, hypotheses ranging from linguistic symbol processing to embodiment have been formulated to account for the content and mechanisms responsible for the representation of abstract concepts. Results of recent studies have suggested that
Dounia Lakhzoum +2 more
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The common element effect of abstract-to-abstract mapping in language processing
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Since the 1990s, there has been much discussion about how concepts are learned and processed. Many researchers believe that the experienced bodily states (i.e., embodied experiences) should be an important factor that affects concepts’ learning and use ...
Xuqian Chen, Guixiang Wang, Yuchan Liang
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