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Catching the intangible: a role for emotion?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2020

Maria Montefinese Open the ORCID record for Maria Montefinese [Opens in a new window] ,
Ettore Ambrosini Open the ORCID record for Ettore Ambrosini [Opens in a new window] ,
Antonino Visalli Open the ORCID record for Antonino Visalli [Opens in a new window]  and
David Vinson Open the ORCID record for David Vinson [Opens in a new window]
Maria Montefinese
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, 35131Padova, Italymaria.montefinese@unipd.it antonino.visalli@unipd.ithttps://sites.google.com/view/mariamontefinese https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonino_Visalli
Ettore Ambrosini
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, 35131Padova, Italymaria.montefinese@unipd.it antonino.visalli@unipd.ithttps://sites.google.com/view/mariamontefinese https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonino_Visalli Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, 35128Padova, Italyettore.ambrosini@unipd.it https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ettore_Ambrosini
Antonino Visalli
Affiliation:
Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, 35131Padova, Italymaria.montefinese@unipd.it antonino.visalli@unipd.ithttps://sites.google.com/view/mariamontefinese https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Antonino_Visalli
David Vinson
Affiliation:
Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, LondonWC1E 6BT, UK. d.vinson@ucl.ac.uk https://www.ucl.ac.uk/pals/research/experimental-psychology/person/david-vinson/
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Abstract

A crucial aspect of Gilead and colleagues’ ontology is the dichotomy between tangible and intangible representations, but the latter remains rather ill-defined. We propose a fundamental role for interoceptive experience and the statistical distribution of entities in language, especially for intangible representations, that we believe Gilead and colleagues’ ontology needs to incorporate.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 43 , 2020 , e138
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