Abstract Concepts, Social Interaction, and Beliefs

Borghi, Anna M.; Fini, Chiara; María, Claudia

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.919808

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“…A related perspective views external and internal attributes as relatively more crucial for concrete and abstract concepts, respectively, based on the fact that study participants tend to describe concrete concepts (e.g., BIRD) by using concrete action and perception related words (“beach”, “fly”, “food”), whereas for describing abstract concepts (e.g., TRUE), more abstract 'introspective' terms are applied (“belief”, “think”, “idea”, Barsalou and Wiemer-Hastings, 2005 ; Borghi et al, 2022a ; Borghi et al, 2022b ). For this proposal too, a range of abstract concepts do not fully fit the pattern, for example abstract attributes applicable to concrete objects or actions, including BEAUTIFUL, RISKY and PROVOCATIVE.…”

Section: Concrete Vs Abstract Concepts and Meaningmentioning

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Neurobiological mechanisms for language, symbols and concepts: Clues from brain-constrained deep neural networks

Pulvermüller

2023

Progress in Neurobiology

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Section: Concrete Vs Abstract Concepts and Meaningmentioning

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Neurobiological mechanisms for language, symbols and concepts: Clues from brain-constrained deep neural networks

Pulvermüller

2023

Progress in Neurobiology

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“…Sensory experience is known to play an important role in the representation of concrete concepts and their differentiation with respect to abstract concepts (Troche et al, 2014). Social interaction and introspection (thought) have been proposed to contribute to abstract word acquisition and representation (Barsalou, 1999; Borghi et al, 2022). Morality, like thought, denotes phenomena that are not directly observable but instead reflex complex social rules that govern behavior (e.g., honesty; Troche et al, 2014).…”

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What makes a word a good representative of the category of “emotion”? The role of feelings and interoception.

Ferré,

Guasch,

Stadthagen-González

et al. 2024

Emotion

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The words we use to describe emotions vary in terms of prototypicality; that is, some of these words may be more representative of the semantic category of emotion than others (e.g., anger refers more clearly to an emotion than boredom). Based on a multicomponential conception of emotions, the aim of the present study was to examine the contribution of several variables to emotion prototypicality. Some of those variables are related to the distinct components of emotions: evaluation, action, body expression, internal body sensations (interoception), and feelings. Other variables are related to the concreteness/abstractness distinction: sensory experience, social interaction, thought, and morality. We collected ratings for these variables for a large set of words (1,286) which varied in emotion prototypicality. A regression analysis revealed that the variables that most contributed to emotion prototypicality were feelings and interoception. Furthermore, a factor analysis identified two underlying factors: socioemotional polarity and emotional experience. The scores of each word in both factors were used to create a two-dimensional space and a density plot which provides relevant information about the organization of emotion concepts in memory.

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