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    "title": "Structural Alignment Across Visual and Linguistic Modalities:  A Developmental Refinement Perspective",
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    "abstract": "This study investigates the structural alignment of conceptual representations accessed from visual and linguistic modalities in 8-9-year-old children and adults. Using a Spatial Arrangement (SpAM) task, participants organized familiar items from two categories – household items (HHI) and vegetables & fruits (VF) – presented separately as images and written words on a two-dimensional grid. Representational dissimilarity matrices were computed based on item distances within each modality and analyzed for structural alignment across modalities. Results showed significantly lower cross-modal alignment in children compared to adults, suggesting ongoing developmental changes in the structure of conceptual representations. Additionally, cross-modal alignment was higher for VF than for HHI categories in both age groups, indicating category-specific variations in conceptual organization and its refinement. These findings provide insights into the gradual refinement of the structure of the lexical-conceptual system, extending beyond item-level lexical learning.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Psychology; Concepts and categories; Development; Representation; Quantitative Behavior"
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            "first_name": "Luan",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Li",
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            "institution": "Shanghai Jiao Tong University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2025-01-01T11:00:00-07:00",
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