The semantic content of concrete, abstract, specific, and generic concepts

C Villani, A Loia, MM Bolognesi - Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
Abstraction processes involve two variables that are often confused with one another:
concreteness (banana versus belief) and specificity (chair versus furniture or Buddhism …

Rethinking modality-specificity in the cognitive neuroscience of concrete word meaning: responses to commentators

F Calzavarini - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
According to common formulations of the Grounded Cognition Framework (eg Barsalou,
2016; Kemmerer, 2022), meanings of concrete words are at least partially grounded in …

Team scientists should normalize disagreement

NA Coles, ER Tenney, JM Chin, JC Friedrich… - Science, 2024 - science.org
When researchers collaboratively tackle challenging questions—such as those related to
climate change, the impact of artificial intelligence, or the nature of consciousness—they …

[PDF][PDF] How Continuous Concreteness Shapes Brain Processing and Concept Representation Across Diverse Tasks: Insights from an ERP Study

M Montefinese, A Visalli, A Angrilli, E Ambrosini - Authorea Preprints, 2024 - osf.io
Behavioural research over several decades has found that concrete words are processed
more quickly and accurately than abstract words (concreteness effect). This advantage is …