NDLI: Fine-Grained Semantic Categorization across the Abstract and Concrete Domains

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Ghio, Marta Vaghi, Matilde Maria Serena Marco, Tettamanti
Editor	Stamatakis, Emmanuel Andreas
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	A consolidated approach to the study of the mental representation of word meanings has consisted in contrasting different domains of knowledge, broadly reflecting the abstract-concrete dichotomy. More fine-grained semantic distinctions have emerged in neuropsychological and cognitive neuroscience work, reflecting semantic category specificity, but almost exclusively within the concrete domain. Theoretical advances, particularly within the area of embodied cognition, have more recently put forward the idea that distributed neural representations tied to the kinds of experience maintained with the concepts' referents might distinguish conceptual meanings with a high degree of specificity, including those within the abstract domain. Here we report the results of two psycholinguistic rating studies incorporating such theoretical advances with two main objectives: first, to provide empirical evidence of fine-grained distinctions within both the abstract and the concrete semantic domains with respect to relevant psycholinguistic dimensions; second, to develop a carefully controlled linguistic stimulus set that may be used for auditory as well as visual neuroimaging studies focusing on the parametrization of the semantic space beyond the abstract-concrete dichotomy. Ninety-six participants rated a set of 210 sentences across pre-selected concrete (mouth, hand, or leg action-related) and abstract (mental state-, emotion-, mathematics-related) categories, with respect either to different semantic domain-related scales (rating study 1), or to concreteness, familiarity, and context availability (rating study 2). Inferential statistics and correspondence analyses highlighted distinguishing semantic and psycholinguistic traits for each of the pre-selected categories, indicating that a simple abstract-concrete dichotomy is not sufficient to account for the entire semantic variability within either domains.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067090
Starting Page	67090
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19326203
e-ISSN	19326203
Journal	PLoS ONE
Issue Number	6
Volume Number	8
Language	English
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Publisher Date	2013-06-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Public Library of Science
Subject Keyword	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all) Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all) Medicine(all) Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Omissions and Byproducts across Moral Domains

Fine-Grained, Local Maps and Coarse, Global Representations Support Human Spatial Working Memory

The Sound of Voice: Voice-Based Categorization of Speakers’ Sexual Orientation within and across Languages

Transfer of the Nonmatch-to-Goal rule in Monkeys across Cognitive Domains

Fine-Tuning Enhancer Models to Predict Transcriptional Targets across Multiple Genomes

Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

Semantic Size of Abstract Concepts: It Gets Emotional When You Can’t See It

Correction: Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

Intraspecific Differences in Lipid Content of Calanoid Copepods across Fine-Scale Depth Ranges within the Photic Layer

Fine-Grained Semantic Categorization across the Abstract and Concrete Domains

Similar Documents

Omissions and Byproducts across Moral Domains

Fine-Grained, Local Maps and Coarse, Global Representations Support Human Spatial Working Memory

The Sound of Voice: Voice-Based Categorization of Speakers’ Sexual Orientation within and across Languages

Transfer of the Nonmatch-to-Goal rule in Monkeys across Cognitive Domains

Fine-Tuning Enhancer Models to Predict Transcriptional Targets across Multiple Genomes

Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

Semantic Size of Abstract Concepts: It Gets Emotional When You Can’t See It

Correction: Fine-Grained Distribution of a Non-Native Resource Can Alter the Population Dynamics of a Native Consumer

Intraspecific Differences in Lipid Content of Calanoid Copepods across Fine-Scale Depth Ranges within the Photic Layer

Fine-Grained Semantic Categorization across the Abstract and Concrete Domains