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A Quantitative Empirical Analysis of the Abstract/Concrete Distinction
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Hill, Felix; Korhonen, Anna; Bentz, Christian – Cognitive Science, 2014
This study presents original evidence that abstract and concrete concepts are organized and represented differently in the mind, based on analyses of thousands of concepts in publicly available data sets and computational resources. First, we show that abstract and concrete concepts have differing patterns of association with other concepts.…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Association (Psychology)