Abstract Words as Social Tools: Which Necessary Evidence?

Front Psychol. 2021 Jan 15:11:613026. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.613026. eCollection 2020.

Anna M Borghi^{1

2}, Claudia Mazzuca³, Federico Da Rold², Ilenia Falcinelli^{1

2}, Chiara Fini¹, Arthur-Henri Michalland^{1

4}, Luca Tummolini²

¹ Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, and Health Studies, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Psychology, University of York, York, United Kingdom.
⁴ University of Montpellier-LIFAM, Montpellier, France.

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Keywords: abstract concepts; autism; deaf children; embodied cognition; gender; grounded cognition; interoception; sociality.