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Direct linkReilly, Jamie; Kean, Jacob – Cognitive Science, 2007
Words associated with perceptually salient, highly imageable concepts are learned earlier in life, more accurately recalled, and more rapidly named than abstract words (R. W. Brown, 1976; Walker & Hulme, 1999). Theories accounting for this concreteness effect have focused exclusively on semantic properties of word referents. A novel possibility is…
Descriptors: Semantics, Etymology, Word Processing, Nouns
