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The ABSTRACTION project investigates how word specificity and concreteness influence thought, language, and creativity. By collecting data on thousands of words in English and Italian through gamification, the project aims to enhance understanding of abstraction mechanisms and improve clarity in communication and metap…
Words, language's building blocks, are labels that define different types of categories.
Some words define categories of concrete entities (cats, tables) while others define abstract entities (legacy, empathy).
Some words define generic categories that encompass many different entities (vehicles, art) while others define more specific ones (sport cars, Impressionism).To unlock meaning from experience, we construct different types of categories through mechanisms of abstraction.
Concreteness and…
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
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