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The non-stop road from concrete to abstract: high concreteness causes the activation of long-range networks

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
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Title
The non-stop road from concrete to abstract: high concreteness causes the activation of long-range networks
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, January 2013
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00526
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Authors

Sabine Weiss, Horst M. Müller

Abstract

Current grounding theories propose that sensory-motor brain systems are not only modulated by the comprehension of concrete but also partly of abstract language. In order to investigate whether concrete or abstract language elicits similar or distinct brain activity, neuronal synchronization patterns were investigated by means of long-range EEG coherence analysis. Participants performed a semantic judgment task with concrete and abstract sentences. EEG coherence between distant electrodes was analyzed in various frequencies before and during sentence processing using a bivariate AR-model with time-varying parameters. The theta frequency band (3-7 Hz) reflected common and different synchronization networks related to working memory processes and memory-related lexico-semantic retrieval during processing of both sentence types. In contrast, the beta1 band (13-18 Hz) showed prominent differences between both sentence types, whereby concrete sentences were associated with higher coherence implicating a more widespread range and intensity of mental simulation processes. The gamma band (35-40 Hz) reflected the sentences' congruency and indicated the more difficult integration of incongruent final nouns into the sentence context. Most importantly, findings support the notion that different cognitive operations during sentence processing are associated with multiple brain oscillations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 2%
Colombia 1 2%
Unknown 55 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 25%
Student > Master 12 21%
Researcher 8 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 12%
Professor 3 5%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 8 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 26 46%
Neuroscience 6 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 7%
Linguistics 3 5%
Other 5 9%
Unknown 9 16%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2014.
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#6,766,904
of 22,719,618 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#2,838
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#73,822
of 280,759 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#401
of 862 outputs
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