Asian participants who were experienced with top-to-bottom reading direction. Interestingly, participants from all groups fixated more on the top left than on the other portions of the dot patterns. However, significant differences between cultures were found with horizontal vs. vertical saccades, as...
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Many investigators, starting with the work of Howes (1954), have shown that apparent frequency of words correlates very highly with T-L frequency. So far as can be determined, however, no investigator has asked about this relationship when only concrete and abstract nouns were involved. It is...
Stimuli consisted of 60 sentences composed of a verb and a concept noun. Concept nouns included 30 abstract concepts and 30 concrete concepts used in a previous study17. The set of stimuli consisted of 3 sub-categories of concrete concepts, i.e., ten tools (e.g., “hammer”, “umbrella...
Abstract, unlike concrete, nouns refer to notions beyond our perception. Even though there is no consensus among linguists as to what exactly constitutes a concrete or abstract word, neuroscientists found clear evidence of a “concreteness” effect. This
Some topics such as criminals, misers, drunks, and children’s games appear again and again, while many others have never been observed. Verbs also clump (break,turn,make,lack,kill), with the top 11 verbs accounting for 150 compounds alone. Nouns recur as well, the most common beingwater...
presented an abstract decision-transformations in order to retrieve documents containing theoretic model of Millionaire that yields a strategy for descriptive phrases of proper nouns.Agichtein et al. [2] a player to maximize expected utility;however, it is still describe a method for learning these ...
Introduction The superior cognitive processing of concrete as compared to abstract nouns has been demonstrated in a number of psycholinguistic studies (for a review see [1]), and is the rule in aphasia (e.g., [2]). Yet, neuropsychological patients with a reversal of concreteness effect have ...