Contextual Acquisition of Concrete and Abstract Words: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Evidence

Contextual Acquisition of Concrete and Abstract Words: Behavioural and Electrophysiological Evidence

Abstract and concrete words differ in their cognitive and neuronal underpinnings, but the exact mechanisms underlying these distinctions are unclear. We investigated differences between these two semantic types by analysing brain responses to newly learnt words with fully controlled psycholinguistic...

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Main Authors: Nadezhda Mkrtychian, Daria Gnedykh, Evgeny Blagovechtchenski, Diana Tsvetova, Svetlana Kostromina, Yury Shtyrov
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Brain Sciences
Subjects:
abstract semantics
concrete semantics
word acquisition
language learning
event-related potentials
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/11/7/898

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