Contextual Processing of Abstract Concepts Reveals Neural Representations of Nonlinguistic Semantic Content
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Contextual Processing of Abstract Concepts Reveals Neural Representations of Nonlinguistic Semantic Content
Concepts develop for many aspects of experience, including abstract internal states and abstract social activities that do not refer to concrete entities in the world. The current study assessed the hypothesis that, like concrete concepts, distributed neural patterns of relevant nonlinguistic semantic content represent the meanings of abstract concepts. In a novel neuroimaging paradigm, partici...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0898-929X,1530-8898
DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00361