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Content Differences for Abstract and Concrete Concepts
2005
Cognitive Science
Concept properties are an integral part of theories of conceptual representation and processing. To date, little is known about conceptual properties of abstract concepts, such as idea. This experiment systematically compared the content of 18 abstract and 18 concrete concepts, using a feature generation task. Thirty-one participants listed characteristics of the concepts (i.e., item properties) or their relevant context (i.e., context properties). Abstract concepts had significantly fewer
doi:10.1207/s15516709cog0000_33
pmid:21702791
fatcat:7al25vw6vrhevj2ozwpd43pwci