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23 - The Neural Representation of Concrete and Abstract Concepts

from Part V - Translating Research on the Neuroscience of Intelligence into Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 June 2021

By
Robert Vargas  and
Marcel Adam Just
Edited by
Aron K. Barbey ,
Sherif Karama  and
Richard J. Haier
Aron K. Barbey
Affiliation:
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sherif Karama
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
Richard J. Haier
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Summary

Although the study of concept knowledge has long been of interest in psychology and philosophy, it is only in the past two decades that it has been possible to characterize the neural implementation of concept knowledge. With the use of neuroimaging technology, it has become possible to ask previously unanswerable questions about the representation of concepts, such as the semantic composition of a concept in its brain representation. In particular, it has become possible to uncover some of the fundamental dimensions of representation that characterize several important domains of concepts.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence and Cognitive Neuroscience , pp. 448 - 468
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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