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    "title": "Conceptual Combination Modulated by Action using Tangible Computers",
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    "abstract": "We studied the role of action in a conceptual combination task by varying whether word stimuli could be physically\ngrasped and arranged (words displayed individually on tangible cubes) or only touched and pointed to (words printed on a poster\npaper). Middle-school aged participants combined nouns from different taxonomic categories then described creative meanings.\nDescriptions contained more between-category relations (e.g., “shaped like” and “looks like” analogies) in the poster condition\nthan when combining words using cubes. Conversely, participants produced more within-category descriptions (e.g., taxonomic\ndeclarations “it’s a X”, and metaphorically blended categories) when interacting with cubes than with a poster. These results\nsuggest embodied explanations, and are consist with developmental studies that find categorization is differentially organized\nby shape and taxonomy. We propose that hardcopy and traditional keyboard-display computers which afford pointing and\ntouching may engage categorization differently than tangible computers based on physical objects which afford grasping and\narranging.",
    "language": "eng",
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        {
            "first_name": "Timothy",
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            "last_name": "Clausner",
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            "institution": "University of Maryland",
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        {
            "first_name": "Mary",
            "middle_name": "Lou",
            "last_name": "Maher",
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            "institution": "University of North Carolina",
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            "institution": "University of North Carolina",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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