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An fMRI Dataset for Concept Representation with Semantic Feature Annotations
Scientific Data, 2022 The neural representation of concepts is a focus of many cognitive neuroscience studies. Prior works studying concept representation with neural imaging data have been largely limited to concrete concepts. The use of relatively small and constrained sets
Shaonan Wang +6 more
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The Semantic Richness of Abstract Concepts
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012 We contrasted the predictive power of three measures of semantic richness—number of features (NF), contextual dispersion (CD), and a novel measure of number of semantic neighbors (NSN)—for a large set of concrete and abstract concepts on lexical decision
Gabriel eRecchia, Michael eJones
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In search of different categories of abstract concepts: a fMRI adaptation study
Scientific Reports, 2021 Concrete conceptual knowledge is supported by a distributed neural network representing different semantic features according to the neuroanatomy of sensory and motor systems.
Francesca Conca +6 more
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Pacifier Overuse and Conceptual Relations of Abstract and Emotional Concepts
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 This study explores the impact of the extensive use of an oral device since infancy (pacifier) on the acquisition of concrete, abstract, and emotional concepts.
Laura Barca +4 more
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The Particularity of Emotional Words: A Grounded Approach
Rivista Internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia, 2017 This work focuses on emotional concepts. We define concepts as patterns of neural activation that re-enact a given external or internal experience, for example the interoceptive experience related to fear.
Claudia Mazzuca +2 more
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Varieties of abstract concepts and their grounding in perception or action
Open Psychology, 2020 For a very long time, theorizing in the cognitive sciences was dominated by the assumption that abstract concepts, which lack a perceivable referent, can only be handled by amodal or verbal linguistic representations.
Kiefer Markus, Harpaintner Marcel
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Sociality to Reach Objects and to Catch Meaning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Sociality influences both concrete and abstract concepts acquisition and representation, but in different ways. Here we propose that sociality is crucial during the acquisition of abstract concepts but less for concrete concepts, that have a bounded ...
Chiara Fini +2 more
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Neural Representations of Concreteness and Concrete Concepts Are Specific to the Individual
The Journal of NeuroscienceDifferent people listening to the same story may converge upon a largely shared interpretation while still developing idiosyncratic experiences atop that shared foundation. What linguistic properties support this individualized experience of natural language?
Thomas L. Botch, Emily S. Finn
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Problems of methodology for forming a categorical and conceptual apparatus of the legal science
Проблеми Законності, 2014 The article is devoted to the problem of formation of concept framework. General and universal dialectic method of transition from abstract to concrete and then from concrete to abstract is analyzed the roll of logiko-gnoseological procedures “abstract ...
М. І. Панов
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Animal‐assisted activities (AAAs) with therapy dogs have shown positive effects on patient well‐being and quality of life in various areas of medicine, including pediatric oncology. However, research on this topic is limited. The aim of this study is to present the current status of AAA in pediatric oncology in Germany, Austria, and
Jan‐Marius Wedig +7 more
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