Andrea Flumini

Universidad de Granada, Experimental Psychology, Post-Doc

Università di Bologna, Depatment of Psychology, Post-Doc

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- Post-doc researcher at Grounded Cognition Lab, Dept. of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada, Spain
- Post-doc research fellow at EMCO Lab, Dept. of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy
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Supervisors: Anna M. Borghi and Julio Santiago de Torres

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University of Amsterdam

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Reading direction causes spatial bias in mental model construction in language comprehension

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Frontiers in Cognition, Feb 9, 2011

Four experiments (E1–E2–E3–E4) investigated whether different acquisition modalities lead to the ... more Four experiments (E1–E2–E3–E4) investigated whether different acquisition modalities lead to the emergence of differences typically found between concrete and abstract words, as argued by the words as tools (WAT) proposal. To mimic the acquisition of concrete and abstract concepts, participants either manipulated novel objects or observed groups of objects interacting in novel ways (Training 1). In TEST 1 participants decided whether two elements belonged to the same category. Later they read the category labels (Training 2); ...

Odors, words and objects

The paper focuses on concepts and words referring to odors and to objects that have an odor. We a... more The paper focuses on concepts and words referring to odors and to objects that have an odor. We argue that odors are an interesting object of study since they are evanescent, and since odor words do not refer to concrete and manipulable objects, but to scents evoked by objects. A second reason why odors are interesting is that some languages, as the Western ones, lack a specific odor lexicon, comparable in richness and variety to the color lexicon, and that performance on odors naming is typically worse than performance in color naming. In this work we discuss three main issues. First, we illustrate literature showing that, even if odor words do not have concrete referents, many languages encode them quite easily: the case of odors suggests that word meaning cannot be exhausted by the relationship with a referent, and highlights the importance of the social sharing of meaning. Second, we have discussed the peculiar status of odor concepts and words. Given their ambiguous status, the...

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