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abstraction

A learning process of forming general ideas or concepts by extracting similarities and general tendencies from direct experience, language, or other concepts (adapted from Reilly et al., 2025, p. 250).

• Barsalou, L. W. (2003). Abstraction in perceptual symbol systems. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, 358(1435), 1177–1187. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2003.1319

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• Reed, S. K. (2016). A taxonomic analysis of abstraction. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 11(6), 817–837. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691616646304

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• Reilly, J., Shain, C., Borghesani, V., Kuhnke, P., Vigliocco, G., Peelle, J. E., Mahon, B. Z., Buxbaum, L. J., Majid, A., Brysbaert, M., Borghi, A. M., De Deyne, S., Dove, G., Papeo, L., Pexman, P. M., Poeppel, D., Lupyan, G., Boggio, P., Hickok, G., … Vinson, D. (2025). What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 32(1), 243–280. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-024-02556-7

• Document type: conceptual analysis

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