Specificity effect in concrete/abstract semantic categorization task.

Cogn Process · 2026 · PMC12860844 · PMID 40900400

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Lastly, although the results from the lexical decision task did not reach statistical significance, the pattern observed across the two categorization tasks revealed a consistent effect of concreteness, with more concrete concepts requiring less processing time.

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