Models that represent meaning as high-dimensional numerical vectors—such as latent
semantic analysis (LSA), hyperspace analogue to language (HAL), bound encoding of the …

The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

The issue of how abstract concepts are represented is widely debated. However, evidence
is controversial, also because different criteria were used to select abstract concepts–for …

Standard neurocognitive models of language processing have tended to obviate the need
for incorporating emotion processes, while affective neuroscience theories have typically …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

From the perspective of the situated conceptualization framework, the primary purpose of
concepts is for categorizing and integrating elements of situations to support goal-directed …

The neuroscientific study of conceptual representation has largely focused on categories of
concrete entities (biological entities, tools…), while abstract knowledge has been less …

The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded
theories need to face, ie, that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired …

The grounding of concepts in the sensorimotor brain systems is controversially discussed.
Grounded cognition models propose that concepts are represented in modality-specific …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …