Grounding abstractness: Abstract concepts and the activation of the mouth

One key issue for theories of cognition is how abstract concepts, such as freedom, are represented. According to the WAT (Words As social Tools) proposal, abstract concepts activate both sensorimotor and linguistic/social information, and their acquisition modality involves the linguistic experience...

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Main Authors: Anna M Borghi, Edoardo Zarcone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01498/full