Converging Modalities Ground Abstract Categories: The Case of Politics
Converging Modalities Ground Abstract Categories: The Case of Politics
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DOI：
10.1371/journal.pone.0060971
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发表时间：
2013-04-10
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Semin, Gun R.
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作者：
Farias, Ana Rita;Garrido, Margarida V.;Semin, Gun R.
据报道，三项研究考察了两种模式（视觉和听觉）的抽象概念的基础及其符号表示。对这些研究结果的比较表明，政治概念的象征表征及其视觉和听觉方式是趋同的。换句话说，政治类别的特定实例之间的空间关系在符号、视觉和听觉模式上高度重叠。这些发现表明，抽象类别在模态和非模态表示中表现出冗余，并且是多模态的。
Three studies are reported examining the grounding of abstract concepts across two modalities (visual and auditory) and their symbolic representation. A comparison of the outcomes across these studies reveals that the symbolic representation of political concepts and their visual and auditory modalities is convergent. In other words, the spatial relationships between specific instances of the political categories are highly overlapping across the symbolic, visual and auditory modalities. These findings suggest that abstract categories display redundancy across modal and amodal representations, and are multimodal.