Fig. 1

A detailed individual example of the conceptual combination effect. The conceptual combination effect in two sentences. In Sentence 200 (blue lines), the CAR representation modified by FGREP for the word flew has salient activations on animate features, presumably denoting bird properties like Small, Biomotion, Music, Smell and Taste, Pleasant and Happy. In Sentence 207 (red lines), it has high activations on inanimate object features, describing a Large, Fast, heavy Weight, and Loud object with some spatial and evaluation properties such as Path, Away, and Benefit which resembles a plane. The strengths of the attributes in the CARs changed according to context