TY - JOUR
T1 - Converging modalities ground abstract categories
T2 - the case of politics
AU - Farias, Ana Rita
AU - Garrido, Margarida V.
AU - Semin, Gün R.
PY - 2013/4/10
Y1 - 2013/4/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876050873&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0060971
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0060971
M3 - Article
C2 - 23593360
AN - SCOPUS:84876050873
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 8
JO - PLoS one
JF - PLoS one
IS - 4
M1 - e60971
ER -