The Structure and Content of Abstract Concepts in the Human Mind and Brain
人类思维和大脑中抽象概念的结构和内容
基本信息
- 批准号:155704-2012
- 负责人:
- 金额:$ 2.26万
- 依托单位:
- 依托单位国家:加拿大
- 项目类别:Discovery Grants Program - Individual
- 财政年份:2015
- 资助国家:加拿大
- 起止时间:2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
- 项目状态:已结题
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项目摘要
Language is an essential aspect of being human. A lot of our language and communication depends on people being able to use and understand words that refer to abstract concepts, such as "approval", "ambition", or "justice". These types of abstract concepts are critical for communicating about our emotions, beliefs, and thoughts, as well as for understanding the world around us. They also are crucial to many of modern society's functions and institutions, such as education, science, politics, and law. For all of these reasons, how people learn and understand abstract concepts is an important issue in Cognitive Science. Researchers have been working toward understanding how people mentally represent abstract concepts, and there has been progress. However, progress has been difficult because abstract concepts are, by their very nature, quite intangible. In the proposed research, we will investigate a new theory that focuses on the importance of real-world situations in people's knowledge of abstract concepts. For example, when one thinks of "justice", situations may be brought to mind involving perhaps a courtroom, a judge, a defendant, and lawyers, and actions involved in a trial. In the other direction, when hearing about a situation involving these settings, participants, and actions, it may activate the concept of "justice" in your mind. Although this theory is both intriguing and promising, it has not yet been tested scientifically in any detailed manner. This proposal outlines a series of projects designed to test whether, and in what particular ways, knowledge of such situations are important to people's representation of abstract concepts. We will assess the situational content of people's abstract conceptual knowledge, and test whether and how quickly it is activated in a person's mind when they hear or read abstract words. We will also investigate the circumstances in which abstract concepts are activated when hearing or reading about situations. The primary goal is to refine theories and add to the knowledge base in this area. By doing so, we will gain a better understanding of how humans learn, use, and comprehend language, and how they understand the world around them.
语言是人类的一个基本方面。我们的语言和交流在很大程度上依赖于人们能够使用和理解涉及抽象概念的词语,如“认可”、“抱负”或“正义”。这些类型的抽象概念对于交流我们的情感、信仰和思想以及理解我们周围的世界都是至关重要的。它们对现代社会的许多功能和机构也是至关重要的,如教育、科学、政治和法律。由于这些原因,人们如何学习和理解抽象概念是认知科学的一个重要问题。研究人员一直在努力了解人们是如何在心理上代表抽象概念的,而且已经取得了进展。然而,进展一直很困难,因为抽象概念的本质是相当无形的。在这项拟议的研究中,我们将调查一种新的理论,该理论侧重于现实世界情景在人们对抽象概念的认识中的重要性。例如,当一个人想到“正义”时,可能会想到涉及法庭、法官、被告和律师的情况,以及涉及审判的行为。另一方面,当听到涉及这些背景、参与者和行动的情况时,它可能会在你的脑海中激活“正义”的概念。尽管这一理论既耐人寻味又前景看好,但它还没有得到任何详细的科学检验。这项建议概述了一系列项目,旨在测试对这种情况的知识是否重要,以及以何种特殊方式对人们表示抽象概念很重要。我们将评估人们抽象概念知识的情景内容,并测试当人们听到或阅读抽象单词时,它是否在大脑中激活,以及激活的速度有多快。我们还将调查当听到或阅读关于情景的情况时抽象概念被激活的情况。主要目标是完善理论并增加这一领域的知识库。通过这样做,我们将更好地理解人类如何学习、使用和理解语言,以及他们如何理解周围的世界。
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McRae, Ken其他文献
Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension.
- DOI:
10.1016/j.jml.2012.01.001 - 发表时间:
2012-05-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:4.3
- 作者:
Metusalem, Ross;Kutas, Marta;Urbach, Thomas P.;Hare, Mary;McRae, Ken;Elman, Jeffrey L. - 通讯作者:
Elman, Jeffrey L.
Feature-feature causal relations and statistical co-occurrences in object concepts
- DOI:
10.3758/bf03193282 - 发表时间:
2007-04-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.4
- 作者:
McNorgan, Chris;Kotack, Rachel A.;McRae, Ken - 通讯作者:
McRae, Ken
Abnormal semantic knowledge in a case of developmental amnesia
- DOI:
10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.06.018 - 发表时间:
2017-07-28 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.6
- 作者:
Blumenthal, Anna;Duke, Devin;McRae, Ken - 通讯作者:
McRae, Ken
The Wind Chilled the Spectators, but the Wine Just Chilled: Sense, Structure, and Sentence Comprehension
- DOI:
10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01027.x - 发表时间:
2009-06-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.5
- 作者:
Hare, Mary;Elman, Jeffrey L.;McRae, Ken - 通讯作者:
McRae, Ken
Distinctive features hold a privileged status in the computation of word meaning: Implications for theories of semantic memory
- DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.32.4.643 - 发表时间:
2006-07-01 - 期刊:
- 影响因子:2.6
- 作者:
Cree, George S.;McNorgan, Chris;McRae, Ken - 通讯作者:
McRae, Ken
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{{ truncateString('McRae, Ken', 18)}}的其他基金
Event knowledge and language comprehension
事件知识和语言理解
- 批准号:
RGPIN-2018-05652 - 财政年份:2022
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Event knowledge and language comprehension
事件知识和语言理解
- 批准号:
RGPIN-2018-05652 - 财政年份:2021
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Event knowledge and language comprehension
事件知识和语言理解
- 批准号:
RGPIN-2018-05652 - 财政年份:2020
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Event knowledge and language comprehension
事件知识和语言理解
- 批准号:
RGPIN-2018-05652 - 财政年份:2018
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
The Structure and Content of Abstract Concepts in the Human Mind and Brain
人类思维和大脑中抽象概念的结构和内容
- 批准号:
155704-2012 - 财政年份:2014
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
The Structure and Content of Abstract Concepts in the Human Mind and Brain
人类思维和大脑中抽象概念的结构和内容
- 批准号:
155704-2012 - 财政年份:2013
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
The Structure and Content of Abstract Concepts in the Human Mind and Brain
人类思维和大脑中抽象概念的结构和内容
- 批准号:
155704-2012 - 财政年份:2012
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
Word meaning and sentence comprehension
词义和句子理解
- 批准号:
155704-2007 - 财政年份:2011
- 资助金额:
$ 2.26万 - 项目类别:
Discovery Grants Program - Individual
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