According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

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 …

Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

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 …

Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

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 …

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

Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

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 …