Abstract
Performance on abstract and concrete sentences was compared in a sentence meaning classification task and in a free recall task. It was found that concrete sentences were classified significantly faster than abstract sentences. The results also showed that abstract sentences were completely omitted in recall significantly more often than were concrete sentences, and that, given a recall attempt, significantly fewer words were recalled from abstract than from concrete sentences. These findings clearly establish the existence of an effect of concreteness at the stage of initial sentence comprehension, and extend the generality of previous results on differences in memory storage of abstract and concrete sentences.
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