PSYCH 3330 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Embodied Cognition, Neuroimaging, Exemplar Theory
8 Mar 2017
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What is the structure and content of semantic memory per se, and how do we. The collins and quillian model of semantic memory was based on a network. The distinction between episodic and semantic memory is not simply one of. Even the simplest acts of human comprehension require vast amounts of. This chapter is about semantic memory, our permanent memory store of general world knowledge. Whereas your episodic memory differs substantially from mine, our semantic memories are largely similar. convenience but does not reflect different kinds of mental and neurological processes. knowledge. Thus for computers to understand, answer questions, or paraphrase, they needed this kind of knowledge base. At the heart of the model were fundamental assumptions about the structure and retrieval processes of semantic memory. The structure of semantic memory was a network, an interrelated set of concepts. Each concept is represented as a node, a point or location in the semantic space. associations between concepts.
