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

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 whic...

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Main Authors: Carmen Granito, Claudia Scorolli, Anna Maria Borghi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0114615&type=printable