Different domains in abstract concepts

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2005
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Setti, Annalisa
Caramelli, Nicoletta
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This study is a first attempt to unravel the almost unexplored domain of abstract conceptual knowledge. Four kinds of abstract concepts (nominal kinds, states of the self, cognitive processes, and emotion concepts) were investigated in two experiments. Emotion concepts displayed a specific pattern in both concreteness/abstractness and imagery ratings (cf. Altarriba et al., 1999), as did the other considered domains of abstract knowledge (Experiment 1). In Experiment 2 we highlighted the specific pattern of information (taxonomic, thematic, attributive, etc) these different abstract domains elicited in a definition production task.
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Concepts , Embodiment , Abstraction
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Setti, A. and Caramelli, N. (2005) 'Different domains in abstract concepts', XXVII Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy, 21-23 July. New Jersey: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 1997-2002.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10468/2709
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