PSYC 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Semantic Dementia, Semantic Memory, Embodied Cognition
3 Apr 2019
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Memory disorders and differences: aging targets episodic memory processes, there are subtypes of dementia. Alzheimer"s disease and semantic dementia: there are different forms of amnesia. Anterograde and retrograde: there are individual differences in memory. Semantic memory: spreading activation models for how concepts are stored in memory. How concepts are learned: rule-based versus prototype-based theories. Embodied cognition: concepts are created online to meet our goals. Guide our interactions with the word: similar to affordances (perception lecture, concepts are stored as sensory-perceptual representations in the brain. Categories: the systematic grouping of instances that are similar: different theories on how this grouping occurs, theories tend to follow the idea of cognitive economy. A balance between simplification and differentiation with categorization. Use the fewest bits" of information to store a category but still ensure a category can distinguish between things. Concepts: the knowledge associated with a category: conceptual knowledge is used to:
