Why are Abstract Concepts Hard to Understand

By P. Schwanenflugel. 2013

228 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence

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In Artificial Intelligence

1. Scott Andrew Crossley
2. Danielle S. McNamara
3. Tom Salsbury
4. Guy Dove
5. K. Kyle
6. A. Graesser
7. Max M. Louwerse
8. P. M. McCarthy

Citations in the corpus

• Psycholinguistic word information in second language oral discourse (2011, background): “Additionally, highly imagable words have more context availability (Schwanenflugel, 1991) because they are experienced and analysed visually (Ellis and Beaton, 1993).”
• Thinking in Words: Language as an Embodied Medium of Thought (2014, background): “There are two prominent explanations of these effects: dual code theory (Paivio, 1971, 1986) and context availability theory (Schwanenflugel, 1991; Schwanenflugel & Shoben, 1983).”