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Frontiers in Psychology, 2015 Prior research has established that while the use of concrete, familiar examples can provide many important benefits for learning, it is also associated with some serious disadvantages, particularly in learners’ ability to recognize and transfer their ...
Samuel B. Day +2 more
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Konkreetsushinnangute kogumine eestikeelsetele sõnadele
Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2022 Artiklis arutleme inimestelt semantilist leksikaalset infot koguva uurimuse peamiste probleemide üle. Kirjeldame katset, millega kogume konkreetsushinnanguid eestikeelsetele sõnadele.
Mari Aigro, Mariann Proos
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Worry, problem elaboration and suppression of imagery: the role of concreteness [PDF]
, 1998 Both lay concept and scientific theory claim that worry may be helpful for defining and analyzing problems. Recent studies, however, indicate that worrisome problem elaborations are less concrete than worry-free problem elaborations.
Stoeber, Joachim, Joachim Stöber
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Effects of Emotional Valence and Concreteness on Children’s Recognition Memory
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 There are considerable gaps in our knowledge of how children develop abstract language. In this paper, we tested the Affective Embodiment Account, which proposes that emotional information is more essential for abstract than concrete conceptual ...
Julia M. Kim +2 more
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A Multi-Dictionary Approach to Abstractness/Concreteness-Based Authorship Attribution
Proceedings of the International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2023 We present some early results from a research project aimed at exploring the usefulness of abstractness/concreteness as stylistic features for authorship attribution.
Lubomir Ivanov
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Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience, 2016 It is unclear whether healthy aging influences concreteness effects (ie. the processing advantage seen for concrete over abstract words) and its associated neural mechanisms.
Tracy eRoxbury +8 more
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Semantic variables and their application in L2 research
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2023 Semantic variables enable L2 researchers and materials creators to quantify and control the effects of meaning on cognition. However, in recent years, many variables have been normed and published.
Allie Spencer Patterson
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Modulating Effects of Contextual Emotions on the Neural Plasticity Induced by Word Learning
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2018 Recently, numerous studies have investigated the neurocognitive mechanism of learning words in isolation or in semantic contexts. However, emotion as an important influencing factor on novel word learning has not been fully considered in the previous ...
Jingjing Guo +3 more
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Worrying Leads to Reduced Concreteness of Problem Elaborations: Evidence for the Avoidance Theory of Worry [PDF]
, 2000 Both lay concept and scientific theory have embraced the view that nonpathological worry may be helpful for defining and analyzing problems. To evaluate the quality of problem elaborations, concreteness is a key variable.
Stoeber, Joachim +2 more
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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
Hoffman, Paul; id_orcid +5 more
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