![]() Psycholinguists have operationally defined word concreteness as the strength with which a word can be experienced directly through the senses imageability is a strongly correlated construct that describes the strength with which a word can rapidly evoke a mental image –. In contrast, abstract words such as condition and aspect typically fail to evoke strong multi-modal perceptual imagery. For most of us, concrete words such as beach tend to rapidly evoke a range of perceptual and affective associations (e.g., suntan lotion, salty odor, the sound of crashing waves). ![]() One of the most prominent and longstanding distinctions in cognitive science involves the unique ways that natural languages represent concrete relative to abstract concepts.
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