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The lexical processing of abstract and concrete nouns

Brain Research, 2009
Recent activation studies have suggested different neural correlates for processing concrete and abstract words. However, the precise localization is far from being defined. One reason for the heterogeneity of these results could lie in the extreme variability of experimental paradigms, ranging from explicit semantic judgments to lexical decision tasks
Costanza Papagno, Eleonora Catricalà, Carlo Miniussi   +2 more
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Recognition of verbs, abstract nouns and concrete nouns from the left and right visual half-fields

Neuropsychologia, 1976
Abstract Visual half-field recognition was evaluated for familiar and unfamiliar verbs, abstract nouns, and concrete nouns. The familiar abstract nouns showed a significantly greater right visual-half-field superiority than did the familiar concrete nouns; however, no difference in asymmetry was found for the unfamiliar abstract and concrete nouns ...
David Hines
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Concreteness and relational effects on recall of adjective–noun pairs.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 2000
Extending previous research on the problem, we studied the effects of concreteness and relatedness of adjective-noun pairs on free recall, cued recall, and memory integration. Two experiments varied the attributes in paired associates lists or sentences.
A, Paivio, M, Khan, I, Begg
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Affordance norms for 2825 concrete nouns

Behavior Research Methods
Objects are commonly described based on their relations to other objects (e.g., associations, semantic similarity, etc.) or their physical features (e.g., birds have wings, feathers, etc.). However, objects can also be described in terms of their actionable properties (i.e., affordances), which reflect interactive relations between actors and objects ...
Nicholas P. Maxwell, Mark J. Huff, Alen Hajnal, Jacob M. Namias, Julia J. C. Blau, Brian Day, Kerry L. Marsh, Benjamin R. Meagher, John F. Shelley-Tremblay, Gray F. Thomas, Jeffrey B. Wagman   +10 more
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Reversed concreteness effect for nouns in a subject with semantic dementia

Neuropsychologia, 2009
Selective sparing of abstract relative to concrete words has been documented only exceptionally in aphasia, following bilateral temporal damage. In this paper we present a new case with sparing of abstract word processing and impairment of concrete words due to selective atrophy of the left anterior temporal regions.In our subject, the reversal of the ...
Papagno, Costanza, Capasso, Rita, Miceli, Gabriele   +2 more
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Hemispheric Asymmetry in Accessing Word Meanings: Concrete and Abstract Nouns

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2002
The present experiments investigated hemispheric differences in the brain in accessing concrete and abstract word meanings. For this purpose, an automatic semantic priming paradigm was used with a short stimulus onset asynchrony between prime and target (250 msec.) as well as a low proportion of related trials. (20%).
Naoki, Shibahara, Brennis, Lucero-Wagoner   +1 more
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Semantic flexibility and referential specificity of concrete nouns

Journal of Memory and Language, 1986
Abstract Although many properties may be ascribed to the referent of a concrete noun, a sentence context may emphasize only some of these properties. Three experiments investigated whether unemphasized properties of an object are, nonetheless, included within the representation of a sentence that mentions the object.
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Cortical anatomy of mental imagery of concrete nouns based on their dictionary definition

NeuroReport, 1998
The functional anatomy of the interactions between spoken language and visual mental imagery was investigated with PET in eight normal volunteers during a series of three conditions: listening to concrete word definitions and generating their mental images (CONC), listening to abstract word definitions (ABST) and silent REST. The CONC task specifically
E, Mellet, N, Tzourio, M, Denis, B, Mazoyer   +3 more
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CONCRETIZATION OF ABSTRACT AND MATERIAL NOUNS

Bulletin of Osh State University, 2021
Zhanyl Abdazovna Kaldybaeva, Elmira Kochkorovna Muratova   +1 more
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