The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters.

By S. Kousta, Gabriella Vigliocco, David P. Vinson, Mark Andrews, E. Del Campo. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 2011

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas (2013, background): “The present study is a typical example of this: Instead of having to limit the list of words to a few hundred, because of a lack of human respondents, we extended the list to nearly 14,000 (see Kuperman et al., 2012, for another example of a large-sample rating obtained via crowdsourcing). Our colle”
Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas (2013, background): “Are there hemispheric differences in the processing of concrete and abstract words (Oliveira, Perea, Ladera, & Gamito, 2013)? What are the effects of word concreteness in working memory (Mate, Allen, & Baqués, 2012; Nishiyama, 2013)? How are concrete and abstract concepts stored in and retrieved fro”
Thinking in Words: Language as an Embodied Medium of Thought (2014, background): “Kousta et al. (2011) found that abstract words have a reaction time advantage over concrete words under these conditions (reversing the usual concreteness effect).”
Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions (2019, methodology): “The representation of abstract words: What matters? Reply to Paivio’s (2013) comment on Kousta et al. (2011). Journal of Experimental Psychology. General 142(1), 288–291. Villani, C., Lugli, L., Liuzza, M. T. & Borghi, A. M. (2019). Le sotto-categorie dei concetti astratti: uno studio empirico. Sist”
Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning (2012, background): “According to Kousta et al. (2011) abstract words differ from concrete words in terms of embodied experiential information.”
Concreteness ratings for 40 thousand generally known English word lemmas (2014, background): “An interesting conceptual framework in this respect may be found in the papers of Vigliocco and colleagues (Andrews et al., 2009; Kousta et al., 2011; Vigliocco et al., 2004).”