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 …

Neural networks are successfully used to imitate and model cognitive processes. However,
to provide clues about the neurobiological mechanisms enabling human cognition, these …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

How are abstract concepts such as 'freedom'and 'democracy'represented in the mind? One
prominent proposal suggests that abstract concepts are grounded in emotion. Supporting …

Word embeddings are vectorial semantic representations built with either counting or
predicting techniques aimed at capturing shades of meaning from word co-occurrences …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

The pervasive use of distributional semantic models or word embeddings for both cognitive
modeling and practical application is because of their remarkable ability to represent the …

The nature of abstract and concrete semantics and differences between them have
remained a debated issue in psycholinguistic and cognitive studies for decades. Most of the …

This theme issue aims to view the literature on concepts through a novel lens, that of social
interaction and its influence on inner experiences. It discusses unsolved problems in …

The debate about the nature of the representational format of concepts seems to have
reached an impasse. The debate faces two fundamental problems. Firstly, amodalists (ie …