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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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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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Printing Information Modeling (PIM) for Additive Manufacturing of Concrete Structures
Applied Sciences, 2023 In the context of Industry 4.0, construction processes are shifting towards automation by implementing additive manufacturing (AM) of concrete structures, also referred to as concrete printing.
Patricia Peralta Abadia +2 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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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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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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