Results 31 to 40 of about 86,158 (275)
Abstract, emotional and concrete concepts and the activation of mouth-hand effectors [PDF]
, 2018 According to embodied and grounded theories, concepts are grounded in sensorimotor systems. The majority of evidence supporting these views concerns concepts referring to objects or actions, while evidence on abstract concepts is more scarce.
Benassi, Mariagrazia +4 more
core +3 more sources
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
doaj +1 more source
Statistical Analysis of Multisensory and Text-Derived Representations on Concept Learning
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2022 When learning concepts, cognitive psychology research has revealed that there are two types of concept representations in the human brain: language-derived codes and sensory-derived codes.
Yuwei Wang +5 more
doaj +1 more source
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 ...
Hoffman, Paul +2 more
core +2 more sources
The Importance of Being Interpreted: Grounded Words and Children’s Relational Reasoning
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 Although young children typically have trouble reasoning relationally, they are aided by the presence of relational words (e.g., Gentner & Rattermann, 1991).
Ji Yun Son +3 more
doaj +1 more source
FoodsRecently, many restaurateurs in the food and beverage industry started using vague and abstract names to label their dishes. However, the influence of the concreteness of food names on consumers’ evaluations of food remains unclear.
Zhao Yu +5 more
doaj +1 more source
The Role of Motion Concepts in Understanding Non-Motion Concepts
Behavioral Sciences, 2017 This article discusses a specific type of metaphor in which an abstract non-motion domain is described in terms of a motion event. Abstract non-motion domains are inherently different from concrete motion domains.
Omid Khatin-Zadeh +3 more
doaj +1 more source
Distributional Measures of Semantic Abstraction
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2022 This article provides an in-depth study of distributional measures for distinguishing between degrees of semantic abstraction. Abstraction is considered a “central construct in cognitive science” (Barsalou, 2003) and a “process of information reduction ...
Sabine Schulte im Walde +1 more
doaj +1 more source
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 2017 As far as we know no notion of concreteness for fibrations exists. We introduce such a notion and discuss some basic results about it.
openaire +4 more sources
Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas [PDF]
, 2014 Concreteness ratings are presented for 37,058 English words and 2,896 two-word expressions (such as zebra crossing and zoom in), obtained from over 4,000 participants by means of a norming study using Internet crowdsourcing for data collection.
Brysbaert, Marc +2 more
core +2 more sources