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COGNITION
Volume 110, Issue 2, Pages 284-292Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.012
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Abstract and concrete concepts; Semantic representations; Visual-world paradigm
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In the present visual-world experiment, participants were presented with visual displays that included a target item that was a semantic associate of an abstract or a concrete word. This manipulation allowed us to test a basic prediction derived from the qualitatively different representational framework that supports the view of different organizational principles for concrete and abstract words in semantic memory. Our results confirm the assumption of a primary organizational principle based on association for abstract words, different from the semantic similarity principle proposed for concrete words, and provide the first piece of evidence in support of this view obtained from healthy participants. The results shed light on the representational structure of abstract and concrete concepts. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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