Retrieval of abstract semantics Uta Noppeney * and Cathy
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concepts is largely specified by their usage in language rather than by their relations to the physical world. Subjects might therefore generate an appropriate semantic sentential context to fully explore and specify the meaning of abstract concepts. Our results also explain why abstract semantics is vulnerable to left frontotemporal lesions.semantics is vulnerable to left frontotemporal lesions. D 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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