An investigation of the nature of abstract concepts

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Mar 1981 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Memory & Cognition, volume 9, pages 149-156 (issn: 0090-502X, eissn: 1532-5946,

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Authors: J A, Hampton;

doi: 10.3758/bf03202329

pmid: 7242328

An investigation of the nature of abstract concepts

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Abstract

Eight abstract concepts were submitted to a procedure designed to test the logical nature of their definition. The hypothesis that they would show a polymorphous prototype structure similar to that found for concrete categories (Hampton, 1979; Rosch & Mervis, 1975) was confirmed for five of the concepts. Reasons for the lack of fit of the prototype model to the remaining concepts and implications for the generality of existing theories of semantic memory are discussed.

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City St George’s, University of London
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Keywords

Male, Memory, Humans, Female, Models, Psychological, Semantics

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