Essays about: "Cognitive Semantic Categorization"

Found 2 essays containing the words Cognitive Semantic Categorization.

1. 1. The Semantics of Old Irish Landscape Vocabulary : Differentiation and Cognitive Linguistic Categorization

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Author : Rebecca Madlener; [2022]
   Keywords : Old Irish; Historical Semantics; Landscape Semantics; Semantic Differentiation; Cognitive Semantic Categorization;

   Abstract : This project investigates the cognitive linguistic categories that structure the Old Irish landscape lexicon. The semantics of basic landscape vocabulary are differentiated based on collocate analysis and close reading of relevant text passages. READ MORE

3. 2. Challenging the dual coding theory : Does Affective Information Play a Greater Role in Abstract Compared to Concrete Word Processing?

   University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskap

   Author : Ingrid Almgren; [2018]
   Keywords : abstract word-processing; DCT; ERP; semantic representation; concreteness effect; imageability; recognition task; categorization; emotional valence;

   Abstract : It has long been held that concrete material has a processing advantage over abstract material, as predicted by Dual Coding Theory (Paivio,1991), although this has been challenged. For example, based on evidence for behavioural and neuroscientific studies, Kousta,, Vigliocco, Vinson, & Del Campo, (2011) proposed that emotional valance had a greater influence in the processing of abstract words, and that under some circumstances there may be no concreteness effect and might even be an abstractness effect. READ MORE