Abstract concepts and aging: An embodied and grounded perspective

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dc.contributor.authorBorghi, Anna M.
dc.contributor.authorSetti, Annalisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-20T11:39:45Z
dc.date.available2017-06-20T11:39:45Z
dc.date.issued2017-05-22
dc.description.abstractHow do we represent abstract concepts, as “justice” and “phantasy”? This issue has become hotly debated within embodied and grounded cognition views (for reviews: Pecher et al., 2011; Dove, 2016; Borghi et al., 2017). It is in fact unclear how such views can explain how we represent concepts that do not have single concrete referents and are rather detached from sensory experience (Barsalou, 2003; Binder, 2016). In spite of the increasing interest for this issue, to date evidence on abstract concepts across the lifespan is limited. Assuming that the representation of abstract concepts changes from adulthood to older age, in this paper we discuss how a new embodied and grounded proposal, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view (Borghi and Binkofski, 2014), can explain how abstract concepts are represented by older individuals. More specifically we will advance hypotheses on abstract concepts in aging focusing on WAT, and reinterpret previous findings in light of it. We propose that WAT can account for existing findings and provide a suitable framework to test conceptual knowledge in older adultsen
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.articleid430
dc.identifier.citationBorghi, A. M. and Setti, A. (2017) 'Abstract Concepts and Aging: An Embodied and Grounded Perspective', Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 430 (4pp). doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00430en
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00430
dc.identifier.endpage4
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.journaltitleFrontiers in Psychologyen
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4107
dc.identifier.volume8
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dc.relation.urihttp://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00430/full
dc.rights© 2017, Borghi and Setti. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAbstract conceptsen
dc.subjectAbstract wordsen
dc.subjectWords as toolsen
dc.subjectAgingen
dc.subjectElderlyen
dc.subjectEmbodied cognitionen
dc.subjectGrounded cognitionen
dc.titleAbstract concepts and aging: An embodied and grounded perspectiveen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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