An ALE meta-analytical review of the neural correlates of abstract and concrete words [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Several clinical studies have reported a double dissociation between abstract and concrete concepts, suggesting that they are processed by at least partly different networks in the brain.
Madalina Bucur, Costanza Papagno
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Musical Emotion Modulates Concrete and Abstract Word Processing: Evidence from ERPs [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Cross-modal emotional priming effects of music on language have been widely demonstrated, but how musical emotion interacts with different types of conceptual representation remains unclear.
Lili Ming, Limei Wu, Jinqiao Zhang
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The role of vocabulary concreteness in modulating embodied semantic representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyEmbodied cognition theory posits that semantic representations are instantiated through two primary mechanisms: perceptual–motor simulation and conceptual metaphor. To examine how lexical concreteness influences the embodied representation in learners of
Zhiwei Cai +3 more
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The Neural Correlates of Abstract and Concrete Words: Evidence from Brain-Damaged Patients [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2013 Neuropsychological and activation studies on the neural correlates of abstract and concrete words have produced contrasting results. The present study explores the anatomical substrates of abstract/concrete words in 22 brain-damaged patients with a ...
Giorgia Martello +2 more
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Contextual Acquisition of Concrete and Abstract Words: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Evidence
Brain Sciences, 2021 and concrete words differ in their cognitive and neuronal underpinnings, but the exact mechanisms underlying these distinctions are unclear. We investigated differences between these two semantic types by analysing brain responses to newly learnt words ...
Nadezhda Mkrtychian +5 more
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The effect of emotional valence on concrete and abstract words in L2 lexical processing among Chinese–English learners [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionEmotional valence influences word processing, and this effect is modulated by word concreteness, but findings remain inconsistent in L2 contexts—especially among Chinese-English learners.MethodsBased on the Embodied Cognition Theory, we ...
Ying Zhang, Zurui Zhang
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Semantic Bimodal Presentation Differentially Slows Working Memory Retrieval
Brain Sciences, 2023 Although evidence has shown that working memory (WM) can be differentially affected by the multisensory congruency of different visual and auditory stimuli, it remains unclear whether different multisensory congruency about concrete and abstract words ...
Jia Cheng +3 more
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Acta Psychologica, 2023 The ability to acquire positive emotions from words is essential to psychological well-being. How word concreteness affects the process of positive emotion acquisition remains unknown. Here, using an evaluation conditioning paradigm, participants learned
Yan Jin, Yue Ma, Miner Li, Xifu Zheng
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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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Distinct Functional Network Connectivity for Abstract and Concrete Mental Imagery
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 In several behavioral psycholinguistic studies, it has been shown that concrete words are processed more efficiently. They can be remembered faster, recognized better, and can be learned easier than abstract words. This fact is called concreteness effect.
Sobhan Hemati +2 more
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