Naming a Lego world. The role of language in the acquisition of abstract concepts.

ABSTRACT: While embodied approaches of cognition have proved to be successful in explaining concrete concepts and words, they have more difficulties in accounting for abstract concepts and words, and several proposals have been put forward. This work aims to test the Words As Tools proposal, according to which both abstract and concrete concepts are grounded in perception, action and emotional systems, but linguistic information is more important for abstract than for concrete concept representation, due to the different ways they are acquired: while for the acquisition of the latter linguistic information might play a role, for the acquisition of the former it is instead crucial. We investigated the acquisition of concrete and abstract concepts and words, and verified its impact on conceptual repre

SUBMITTER: Granito C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4309617 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature