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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
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Word reading and translation in bilinguals: the impact of formal and informal translation expertise [PDF]
, 2014 Studies on bilingual word reading and translation have examined the effects of lexical variables (e.g., concreteness, cognate status) by comparing groups of non-translators with varying levels of L2 proficiency. However, little attention has been paid to
Chadha, Sumeer +7 more
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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
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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 ...
Hoffman, Paul +2 more
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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The Semantic Richness of Abstract Concepts
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2012 We contrasted the predictive power of three measures of semantic richness—number of features (NF), contextual dispersion (CD), and a novel measure of number of semantic neighbors (NSN)—for a large set of concrete and abstract concepts on lexical decision
Gabriel eRecchia, Michael eJones
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‘Concrete’ Manipulatives, Concrete Ideas [PDF]
Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2000 The notion of ‘concrete,’ from concrete manipulatives to pedagogical sequences such as ‘concrete to abstract,’ is embedded in educational theories, research, and practice, especially in mathematics education. In this article, the author considers research on the use of manipulatives and offers a critique of common perspectives on the notions of ...
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