title: Conceptual information on objects' locations.
abstract: According to traditional views, basic and subordinate concepts elicit perceptual information, superordinate concepts abstract information. Two experiments showed that also superordinate concepts activate perceptual and contextual information. In Experiment 1 participants evaluated the adequacy of Scene- and Object-like locations ascribed to basic and superordinate concepts. Superordinate concepts were judged faster when paired with Scene-like locations, where many exemplars can coexist, than with Object-like locations. The results were replicated and extended in the second experiment with a location production task. Theoretical accounts for the results are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy. annamaria.borghi@unibo.it
authors.forename: Anna M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Borghi
authors.forename: Nicoletta
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Caramelli
authors.forename: Annalisa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Setti
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D009949:Orientation; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D011930:Reaction Time; D012660:Semantics; D013067:Speech Perception