PSYC 3265 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Takeaway, Frontal Lobe, Semantic Dementia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3265
• Professor: Norman Park

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Semantic organization should be the same across cultures and languages. She set out to investigate this possibility: different languages have different numbers of words for colour, some have only 2, some have 3, some have more. Rosch the way we perceive the world effects the way we remember the world. If that"s the case then it should follow that for certain types of perceptual memories, they. Linguist berlin and kay: investigated colour names across languages: for 2 black and white, for 3 black, white and red, for 5 black, white, red, green, yellow. A concept is defined by its attributes of: eg: birds have feathers, fly, beaks, lay eggs etc. If it is false, much faster if unrelated instance is not closely associated with the category features associated with robin and bird are retrieved and if there is high degree of overlap, then the response is quick. If there is a mismatch, the correct answer is no.