Thought

Research question 1:What's the relation between specificity and concreteness in human thought?

Infographic on word specificity judgments collected through gamification

• Task 1 --> Data collection: specificity ratings through gamification (Word Ladders)

Infographic statistical analysis

• Task 2 --> Statistical modeling:

Research question 2: how does word specificity explain processing differences previously attributed to concreteness alone?

Infographic statistical analysis

• Task 1 --> Statistical modelling:

Research question 3: do abstract concepts vary in specificity like concrete concepts?

Scatter plot

• Task 1 --> Hierarchical clustering, aimed at observing the potential emergence of different classes of abstract concepts, with internal coherence in terms of specificity values

Infographic on classification of words into superordinates, basic level and subordinates

• Task 2 --> Testing whether abstract words can be classified into superordinate, basic-level and subordinate, based on their number of features and frequency of use.