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Content Differences for Abstract and Concrete Concepts
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Wiemer-Hastings, Katja Katja; Xu, Xu – Cognitive Science, 2005
Concept properties are an integral part of theories of conceptual representation and processing. To date, little is known about conceptual properties of abstract concepts, such as idea. This experiment systematically compared the content of 18 abstract and 18 concrete concepts, using a feature generation task. Thirty-one participants listed…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Concept Formation, Abstract Reasoning, Context Effect