Abstract
According to traditional views, basic and subordinate concepts elicit perceptual information, superordinate concepts abstract information. Two experiments showed that also superordinate concepts activate perceptual and contextual information. In Experiment 1 participants evaluated the adequacy of Scene- and Object-like locations ascribed to basic and superordinate concepts. Superordinate concepts were judged faster when paired with Scene-like locations, where many exemplars can coexist, than with Object-like locations. The results were replicated and extended in the second experiment with a location production task. Theoretical accounts for the results are discussed.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 140-151 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Brain and Language |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2005 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Categorization
- Concepts
- Conceptual organization
- Embodied cognition
- Hierarchical level
- Scenes
- Situated cognition
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