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Semantic size of abstract concepts: it gets emotional when you can't see it. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Size is an important visuo-spatial characteristic of the physical world. In language processing, previous research has demonstrated a processing advantage for words denoting semantically "big" (e.g., jungle) versus "small" (e.g., needle) concrete objects.
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Is there a semantic system for abstract words? [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 Two views on the semantics of concrete words are that their core mental representations are feature-based or are reconstructions of sensory experience. We argue that neither of these approaches is capable of representing the semantics of abstract words ...
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, 2018 The first print magazine from 1000 Words. 2018 marks the 10th anniversary of 1000 Words, and what better way to celebrate than to publish a special print annual?
Clark, Tim, 1000 Words
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, 2020 1000 Words is a leading online contemporary photography magazine. It commissions and publishes exhibition and photo book reviews, essays and interviews in response to the visual culture of our present moment.
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Measuring inconsistencies can lead you forward. The case of imageability and concreteness ratings
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 According to the traditional view, both imageability and concreteness ratings reflect the way word meanings rely on information mediated by the senses. As a consequence, the two measures should and do correlate.
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On the Effectiveness of Involvement Load Components on L2 Vocabulary Learning [PDF]
Journal of English Language Teaching and LearningObjective: The involvement load hypothesis posits that the higher the involvement load of a task, the more effective it will be in improving students’ lexical learning. It does not differentiate between the different components of involvement load (need,
Zahra Memarnia, Abbas Zarei
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Be concrete to be comprehended:consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates [PDF]
, 2013 There are two contrasting views on the nature of comprehension impairment in semantic dementia: (a) that it stems from degradation of a pan-modal "hub" that represents core conceptual knowledge or (b) that it results from degradation of modality-specific
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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 ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 It has been widely reported that concrete words have processing advantages over abstract words in terms of speed and efficiency of processing, a phenomenon known as the concreteness effect.
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Abstract words processing induces parasympathetic activation: A thermal imaging study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 words (e.g., freedom) compose a significant part of speech. Despite this, learning them is complicated. Abstract concepts collect more heterogeneous exemplars and are more detached from sensory modalities than concrete concepts. Recent views propose that,
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