3. LENKA ZDRAZILOVA
Information acquired: 2025
LENKA ZDRAZILOVA is an academic who published a paper in 2017 entitled Understanding the Meanings of Abstract Concepts: Keeping it Grounded and Real. LENKA ZDRAZILOVA published this work as part of a team: Zdrazilova, Lenka. Here is a description of this work: Abstract words refer to things and entities in the world that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (e.g., truth, morality). How we learn, represent, and use abstract words is one of the deepest problems in cognitive science today. I investigated this question in two experiments. In Experiment 1, I examined the effects of six semantic richness variables (sensory experience, valence, number of associates, context availability, arousal, semantic neighbourhood, and number of associates) on lexical-semantic processing for 207 abstract nouns. Behavioural tasks were lexical decision (LDT) and semantic categorization (SCT). Results showed that participants were faster to respond in LDT to words high in context availability, and faster to respond in SCT to words high in valence and sensory experience. These results suggest that abstract meanings might be grou.