Imaginal, Semantic, and Surface-Level Processing of Concrete and Abstract Words: An Electrophysiological Investigation
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- 1 November 2000
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by MIT Press in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Vol. 12 (6) , 1024-1037
- https://doi.org/10.1162/08989290051137558
Abstract
Words representing concrete concepts are processed more quickly and efficiently than words representing abstract concepts. Concreteness effects have also been observed in studies using event-relate...Keywords
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