{"pk":28689,"title":"Abstract concepts and the suppression of arbitrary episodic context","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Context is important for abstract concept processing, but amechanism by which it is encoded and re-instantiated withconcepts is unclear. We used a source-memory paradigm todetermine whether episodic context is attended more whenprocessing abstract concepts. Experiment 1 presentedabstract and concrete words in colored boxes at encoding. Attest, memory for the frame color was worse for abstractconcepts, counter to our predictions. Experiment 2 showedthe same pattern when colored boxes were replaced withmale and female voices. Experiment 3 presented words fromencoding in the same or different box color to determinewhether a greater advantage is conferred by context retentionin memory for abstract concepts. There was instead adisadvantage: abstract concepts were less likely to beidentified when the encoding color was retained at test.Concrete concepts are more sensitive to simple episodicdetail, and in abstract concepts, arbitrary context may besuppressed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"concepts"},{"word":"Semantic memory"},{"word":"episodic memory"},{"word":"abstract concepts"},{"word":"concreteness"}],"section":"Papers with Poster Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0t7265gw","frozenauthors":[],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-02T02:00:00+08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28689/galley/18560/download/"}]}