Duñabeitia Jon Andoni, Avilés Alberto, Afonso Olivia, Scheepers Christoph, Carreiras Manuel
Instituto de Tecnologías Biomédicas, Universidad de La Laguna, Spain.
Cognition. 2009 Feb;110(2):284-92. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2008.11.012. Epub 2008 Dec 24.
In the present visual-world experiment, participants were presented with visual displays that included a target item that was a semantic associate of an abstract or a concrete word. This manipulation allowed us to test a basic prediction derived from the qualitatively different representational framework that supports the view of different organizational principles for concrete and abstract words in semantic memory. Our results confirm the assumption of a primary organizational principle based on association for abstract words, different from the semantic similarity principle proposed for concrete words, and provide the first piece of evidence in support of this view obtained from healthy participants. The results shed light on the representational structure of abstract and concrete concepts.
在当前的视觉世界实验中，向参与者呈现视觉显示，其中包括一个目标项目，该目标项目是一个抽象词或具体词的语义关联项。这种操作使我们能够测试从性质不同的表征框架得出的一个基本预测，该框架支持语义记忆中具体词和抽象词具有不同组织原则的观点。我们的结果证实了基于关联的抽象词主要组织原则的假设，这与为具体词提出的语义相似性原则不同，并提供了从健康参与者获得的支持这一观点的首个证据。这些结果揭示了抽象概念和具体概念的表征结构。
