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Conceptual Salience

Conceptual Salience is a cognitive-linguistic construct that identifies the prominence or psychological accessibility of a conceptual element within a conceptual structure, distinguishing it by its role in guiding attention and interpretation in meaning construction.

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Knowledge activation: Accessibility, applicability, and salience.

E. Tory Higgins · 1996 · 1.9K citations

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Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis

Rachel Giora · Cognitive Linguistics · 1997 · 1.2K citations

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There's more to touch than meets the eye: The salience of object attributes for haptics with and without vision.

Roberta L. Klatzky, Susan J. Lederman, Catherine L. Reed · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1987 · 454 citations

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On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language

Rachel Giora · Journal of Pragmatics · 1999 · 411 citations

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Feature Centrality and Conceptual Coherence

Steven A. Sloman, Bradley C. Love, Woo‐kyoung Ahn · Cognitive Science · 1998 · 317 citations

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Authors

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  1. SJ
    Susan J. Lederman

    Queen's University, Canada

    2 publications · 487 citations

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  2. WA
    Woo‐kyoung Ahn

    Yale University, United States

    2 publications · 398 citations

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  3. CL
    Catherine L. Reed

    University of Denver, United States

    2 publications · 487 citations

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  4. SA
    Steven A. Sloman

    Brown University, United States

    2 publications · 398 citations

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  5. RL
    Roberta L. Klatzky

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    2 publications · 487 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

    Madrid, Spain

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    62 citations

  2. John Brown University

    Siloam Springs, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    398 citations

  3. Brown University

    Providence, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    81 citations

  4. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    74 citations

  5. State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    115 citations

  6. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

  7. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    46 citations

  8. Yale University

    New Haven, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    317 citations

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  1. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

    2 publications · 152 citations

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  2. Cognitive Science

    2 publications · 398 citations

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  3. PLoS ONE

    2 publications · 69 citations

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  4. Frontiers in Psychology

    2 publications · 137 citations

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  5. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

    2 publications · 67 citations

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