Clustering, hierarchical organization, and the topography of abstract and concrete nouns. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2014 The empirical study of language has historically relied heavily upon concrete word stimuli. By definition, concrete words evoke salient perceptual associations that fit well within feature-based, sensorimotor models of word meaning. In contrast, many theorists argue that abstract words are "disembodied" in that their meaning is mediated through ...
Troche J, Crutch S, Reilly J.
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Effects of Emotional and Sensorimotor Knowledge in Semantic Processing of Concrete and Abstract Nouns [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012 There is much empirical evidence that words' relative imageability and body-object interaction (BOI) facilitate lexical processing for concrete nouns (e.g., Bennett et al., 2011). These findings are consistent with a grounded cognition framework (e.g., Barsalou, 2008), in which sensorimotor knowledge is integral to lexical processing.
Paul D Siakaluk +2 more
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Tracking neural coding of perceptual and semantic features of concrete nouns [PDF]
NeuroImage, 2012 We present a methodological approach employing magnetoencephalography (MEG) and machine learning techniques to investigate the flow of perceptual and semantic information decodable from neural activity in the half second during which the brain comprehends the meaning of a concrete noun.
Gustavo Sudre +2 more
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Dissociable substrates underlie the production of abstract and concrete nouns [PDF]
Brain and Language, 2017 Katheryn A Q Cousins +2 more
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Action channel switching costs in the comprehension of concrete and abstract mandarin verbs. [PDF]
Front PsycholThe grounding of language in perceptual–motor systems remain a central issue in embodied cognition research, particularly regarding whether abstract concepts engage sensorimotor representations in a manner similar to concrete concepts.
Cai Z, Qu Z, Fan N.
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Neural representation of nouns and verbs in congenitally blind and sighted individuals. [PDF]
Nat CommunIn blind individuals, language processing activates not only classic language networks, but also the “visual” cortex. What is represented in visual areas when blind individuals process language? Here, we show that area V5/MT in blind individuals, but not
Urbaniak M +3 more
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Interpretative Potential of Abstract and Concrete Common Nouns
SibScriptThe article describes the interpretative potential of abstract and concrete common nouns. In interpretational linguistics, any word may become part of dialogue, which means that its semantics is not static. The research objective was to identify differences between abstract and concrete common nouns in interpretational discourse.
E Yu. Pozdnyakova, N. N. Shpilnaya
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A Neurosemantic Theory of Concrete Noun Representation Based on the Underlying Brain Codes [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 This article describes the discovery of a set of biologically-driven semantic dimensions underlying the neural representation of concrete nouns, and then demonstrates how a resulting theory of noun representation can be used to identify simple thoughts through their fMRI patterns.
Marcel Adam Just +3 more
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Morphological Criterion for Distinguishing between Abstract and Concrete Nouns: An Experimental Approach [PDF]
Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021 In this paper, the problem of using a morphological criterion for distinguishing between abstract nouns and other lexico-grammatical categories of the Russian language was studied. The experimental data were obtained as part of the work on compiling an electronic semantic dictionary of Russian abstract nouns with the help of the methodology used to ...
Yu.A. Volskaya
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Amelioration in Indonesian Concrete Nouns [PDF]
Advances in social science, education and humanities research, 2021 Ngusman Abdul Manaf, Pepylian Vini Utami
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