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TACO: A Turkish database for abstract concepts
The organization of abstract concepts reflects different dimensions, grounded in the brain regions coding for the corresponding experience. Normative...
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Grounding of abstract concepts related to power
Grounded cognition assumes that language and concepts are understood using simulations in different modalities. Evidence for this assumption mainly...
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Abstract concepts and simulated competition
To better understand the social determinants of conceptual knowledge we devised a task in which participants were asked to judge the match between a...
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Concrete constraints on abstract concepts—editorial
This special issue, "Concrete constraints of abstract concepts", addresses the role of concrete determinants, both external and internal to the human...
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Abstract concepts: external influences, internal constraints, and methodological issues
There is a longstanding and widely held misconception about the relative remoteness of abstract concepts from concrete experiences. This review...
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The understanding of abstract concepts: a perspective from distributed models of conceptual representation
This theoretical article looks at the process of understanding abstract concepts from the perspective of distributed models of conceptual...
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Merging Affordances and (Abstract) Concepts
The notion of affordance posits important challenges for the investigation of language and abstract concepts. Studies on affordances and language...
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Encoding and inhibition of arbitrary episodic context with abstract concepts
Context is critical for conceptual processing, but the mechanism underpinning its encoding and reinstantiation during abstract concept processing is...
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Modelling concrete and abstract concepts using brain-constrained deep neural networks
A neurobiologically constrained deep neural network mimicking cortical area function relevant for sensorimotor, linguistic and conceptual processing...
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Embodiment and repeated exposure do not suffice for abstract concepts acquisition: evidence from tonal music cognition
Research on abstract concepts (AC) suggests that while some AC are enacted indirectly and occasionally, others are largely grounded in our...
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Bodily, emotional, and public sphere at the time of COVID-19. An investigation on concrete and abstract concepts
The outbreak of Covid-19 pandemics has dramatically affected people’s lives. Among newly established practices, it has likely enriched our conceptual...
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Embodiment and learning of abstract concepts (such as algebraic topology and regression to the mean)
This video is a proof of concept that ideas from embodied cognition can be used to understand how the brain and cognitive systems deal with very...
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Thematic and other semantic relations central to abstract (and concrete) concepts
In this article, we discuss multiple types of meaningful (semantic) relations underlying abstract (as compared to concrete) concepts. We adopt the...
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A novel image database for social concepts reveals preference biases in autistic spectrum in adults and children
Human beings display the extraordinary ability of gras** and communicating abstract concepts. Yet, no standardized instruments exist to assess this...
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Using agreement probability to study differences in types of concepts and conceptualizers
Agreement probability p(a) is a homogeneity measure of lists of properties produced by participants in a Property Listing Task (PLT) for a concept....
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The Challenges of Abstract Concepts
Some have recently suggested that abstract conceptsAbstract concepts do not constitute a substantial challenge to embodied cognitionEmbodied...
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Integrative Review of Developmental Behavior-Analytic Concepts
We reviewed five behavior-analytic concepts related to development: behavioral trap, cumulative-hierarchical learning (CHL), basic behavioral...
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Invariant representations in abstract concept grounding – the physical world in grounded cognition
Grounded cognition states that mental representations of concepts consist of experiential aspects. For example, the concept “cup” consists of the...
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Reasoning with Vygotsky: Semiosis Between Everyday and Scientific Concepts
Much has been written about Vygotsky and the popular concept of the Zone of Proximal Development that remains one of the greatest heritages of...
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Heterogenous abstract concepts: is “ponder” different from “dissolve”?
Abstract words have usually been treated as a homogenous group, with limited investigation of the influence of different underlying representational...
