Quantifying the Multidimensionality of Abstract Concepts: An Italian Database.

ABSTRACT: Background: The embodied cognition approach, as applied to concrete knowledge, is centred on the role of the perceptual and motor aspects of experience. To extend the embodied framework to abstract knowledge, some studies have suggested that further dimensions, such as affective or social experiences, are relevant for the semantic representations of abstract concepts. The objective of this study is to develop a measure that can quantitatively capture the multidimensional nature of abstract concepts. Methods: We used dimension-rating methods, known to be suitable, to account for the semantic representations of abstract concepts, to develop a new database of 964 Italian words, rated by 542 participants. Besides classical psycholinguistic variables (i.e., concreteness, imageabil

SUBMITTER: Borsa VM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11940458 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature