Semantic size of abstract concepts: it gets emotional when you can't see it.

Size is an important visuo-spatial characteristic of the physical world. In language processing, previous research has demonstrated a processing advantage for words denoting semantically "big" (e.g., jungle) versus "small" (e.g., needle) concrete objects. We investigated whether...

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Main Authors: Bo Yao, Milica Vasiljevic, Mario Weick, Margaret E Sereno, Patrick J O'Donnell, Sara C Sereno
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3783453?pdf=render