Words as social tools: Language, sociality and inner grounding in abstract concepts

AM Borghi, L Barca, F Binkofski, C Castelfranchi… - Physics of life …, 2019 - Elsevier
The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

The multifaceted abstract brain

RH Desai, M Reilly, W van Dam - … Transactions of the …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years

H Richardson, G Lisandrelli, A Riobueno-Naylor… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Human adults recruit distinct networks of brain regions to think about the bodies and minds
of others. This study characterizes the development of these networks, and tests for …
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Y Zhang, K Han, R Worth, Z Liu - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
In the brain, the semantic system is thought to store concepts. However, little is known about
how it connects different concepts and infers semantic relations. To address this question …