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Symbolic

Symbolic Symbolic refers to cues or objects that carry socially or culturally shared meaning beyond their basic visual form.

Symbolic refers to cues or objects that carry socially or culturally shared meaning beyond their basic visual form. In this packet, it describes icons such as national symbols that are meaningful within a culture and are processed differently from neutral objects.

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Drafting source: Li Zhiqiang. Neural time course of processing socially meaningful symbolic cues: ERP differences between national-symbol and neutral-object icons. 2026; DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2026.1838401; article XML SHA-256 a1c970900bac0c55bb89f1cd5eb8c4d521bcda643ba860184061a35947226fd7. “Neural time course of processing socially meaningful symbolic cues: ERP differences between national-symbol and neutral-object icons” (10.3389/fnhum.2026.1838401).
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