Faculdade de Psicologia, Alameda da Universidade, 1649-013, Lisboa, Portugal.
Mem Cognit. 2012 Nov;40(8):1266-75. doi: 10.3758/s13421-012-0220-6.
In the present studies, we evaluated the contributions of language and sensorimotor information to the representation of abstract and concrete words and the possibility that the organizations of the two types of concepts follow different organizational principles: association, for abstract concepts, and semantic similarity, for concrete concepts. In Study 1, we examined the two strongest associates of concrete and abstract words from published free association norms. Study 2 then extended this analysis to individual data collected with a free association task. Language associations were more important for abstract than for concrete words, but for sensorimotor information no differences were observed between the two types of concepts. Also, no clear evidence was found for different qualitative organizational principles for abstract and concrete concepts. Multiple representational systems thus seem to be engaged in the conceptual processing of abstract and concrete concepts, while it remains to be investigated whether their representations follow different organizational principles.
在目前的研究中，我们评估了语言和感觉运动信息对抽象和具体词汇的表示的贡献，以及这两种类型的概念的组织是否遵循不同的组织原则的可能性：联想，用于抽象概念，语义相似性，用于具体概念。在研究 1 中，我们从已发表的自由联想规范中检查了具体和抽象词的两个最强关联词。研究 2 然后将此分析扩展到使用自由联想任务收集的个人数据。语言联想对于抽象词比具体词更为重要，但是对于感觉运动信息，两种类型的概念之间没有观察到差异。也没有发现明确的证据表明抽象和具体概念的组织原则不同。因此，似乎有多个表示系统参与了抽象和具体概念的概念处理，而仍然需要研究它们的表示是否遵循不同的组织原则。
