Our paper now out in Emotion on the conceptual structure of emotions w Allie Kelly, Evangelia Chrysikou, Yoed Kennett, John Medaglia -- pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38635194/
Theories of semantic organization have historically prioritized investigation of concrete concepts pertaining to inanimate objects and natural kinds. As a result, accounts of the conceptual representa...
Incredibly stoked to share this paper with lead team @renoultlouis.bsky.social@danipalombo.bsky.socialelifesciences.org/articles/83645 1/n
Four types of declarative memory rely on different weightings of similar component processes, according to fMRI and subjective ratings.
The pre-registrations, materials, data and scripts are publicly available on the Open Science Framework at osf.io/pmyut/ 🔓 [7/7]
However, the socialness effect was not ubiquitous, and it was not always greater for more abstract words, highlighting its susceptibility to task/context demands and the dynamic nature of conceptual processing 🌊🔁 [6/7]
This suggests that social information enriches conceptual representations, by, for example, providing them with additional features or thematic associations which facilitate their processing ➕📈 [5/7]
Here, we show that ✨social words✨, like TEACHER, LOYAL, and NATION, benefit from more efficient processing across 1️⃣ lexical, 2️⃣ semantic, 3️⃣ syntactic and 4️⃣ memory tasks, even when controlling for established lexical and semantic dimensions [4/7]
Recent theories propose that social information 👥 also makes important contributions to conceptual representation, and particularly to abstract concepts, 🛑 but behavioural evidence in favour of these claims is lacking [3/7]
Concepts are thought to be represented via a combination of properties derived from sensory👁️, motor,✋ affective💗, introspective💭 and linguistic🗣️ experiences [2/7]
In a 🚨 new paper 🚨: doi.org/10.1037/xlm0...@pennypexman.bsky.social@rjbinney.bsky.social, Emiko Muraki and I provide empirical evidence that social experience makes unique contributions to conceptual knowledge 🧵
Unseen but influential associates🕵️♀️. In this new paper with Emiko Muraki, we find that semantic processing is influenced by properties of presented words' (non-presented) associates. Out today in @psychonomicsociety.bsky.socialrdcu.be/dAEtc
