Titlebook: Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts; Anna M. Borghi,Ferdinand Binkofski Book 2014 The Author(s) 2014 Abstract con

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2192-8363 posal of embodied and grounded cognition as it relates to se.How are abstract concepts and words represented in the brain? That is the central question addressed by the authors of “.Words as Social Tools: An Embodied View on Abstract Concepts.”. First, they focus on the difficulties in defining what

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The Problem of Definition,ent emotional terms can be considered as abstract. This analysis revealed that there is not a criterion which has been consistently used to select abstract concepts. This reflects the complexity of the topic but also invites us to a great caution in analyzing experimental results. The difficulty of

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Embodied and Hybrid Theories of Abstract Concepts and Words,th all other embodied proposals, according to WAT, all concepts, not only concrete ones, are embodied and grounded. As other theories, WAT stresses the fact that the grounding of abstract concepts differs from that of concrete ones: Abstract concepts activate more situations, more linguistic informa

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What Can Neuroscience Tell Us About Abstract Concepts,nsorimotor areas. The issue of whether specific representations for abstract and concrete concepts exist is far more difficult, since some studies report more activations of left hemispheric areas and some others report right lateralized activations for abstract concepts. However, there is growing e

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Language, Languages, and Abstract Concepts,ore influenced by linguistic variability. The analysis takes into account concepts that can be considered as progressively more abstract: it starts with studies on concrete objects as containers, then it focuses on motion and locomotion verbs, on spatial relations, and then it turns to studies on ab

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Book 2014s and of abstract word representation, processing and use. This theory assigns a major role to acquisition: one of the assumptions the authors make is that the different ways in which concrete and abstract words are acquired constrain their brain representation and their use. This view will be compa

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