“…Studies on how concreteness contributes to word recognition (Sadoski, Goetz and Fritz 1993, Jessen et al 2000, Wang et al 2010, Welcome et al 2011, Gullick, Mitra and Coch 2013 support the dual coding theory as well although there are alternative theories of semantic representation regarding word concreteness (Kousta et al 2011). Abstract words, which are usually less imageable, are processed through verbal coding of the left cerebral hemisphere only, while concrete words, in addition to the verbal-based processing in the left hemisphere, may go through a second image-based processing in the right hemisphere (Paivio and te Linde 1982).…”