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Catching the intangible: a role for emotion?

Maria MontefineseEttore AmbrosiniAntonino VisalliDavid Vinson
Published in: The Behavioral and brain sciences (2020)
A crucial aspect of Gilead and colleagues' ontology is the dichotomy between tangible and intangible representations, but the latter remains rather ill-defined. We propose a fundamental role for interoceptive experience and the statistical distribution of entities in language, especially for intangible representations, that we believe Gilead and colleagues' ontology needs to incorporate.
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