Retrieval from Semantic Memory

W. Noordman-Vonk (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XII, 100 Seiten

2011 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-67217-0 (ISBN)

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The area of concern to Dr. Wietske Noordman~Vonk has been variously seen as an aspect of long-term memory [F. I], secondary memory [F. 2], memory without record [F. 3], and semantic memory [F. 4J, the latter term being the one pre ferred by Dr. Noordman-Vonk herself. This proliferation of terminology is not an entirely trivial matter, for although the expressions clearly overlap in range, they do draw attention to different features of the phenomena under consideration. The work reported here is concerned with the form of representation and manipulation of our knowledge that, for example, a dog is an animal, or that mothers and daughters are parents and children. To put it more generally, the experiments attempt to elucidate the psychological processes involved in the~emantics of class-inclusion and, most importantly, to extend the explanatory principles there invoked to a new domain, that of kinship relations. Clearly, the connections between "ant" and "insect", or "flower" and "plant" have been known to us - as adults - for some considerable period of time; in the absence of brain injury or degeneration we are unlikely to "forget" that fathers and sons are kin of the same sex. We may therefor- pretheoretically - distinguish between retrieval of such knowledge and. re trieval of a rapidly fading sequence of random numbers that we are asked to recall after a single presentation. It is in this sense that the current work is concerned with long-term and not short-term memory.

1 Introduction.- 2 Statistical Analysis of the Reaction Time Data.- I A Model for Verifying Semantic Relations.- 3 The Selection of the Material from the Hierarchical Domain.- 4 The Verification of Hierarchical Relations.- II Generalization to Another Task.- 5 Judging the Semantic Similarity in a Hierarchical Domain.- III Generalization to Another, Semantic Domain.- 6 The Kinship Domain.- 7 The Verification of Kinship Relations.- 8 Summary and Conclusion.- References.- Author Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.10.2011
Reihe/Serie	Springer Series in Language and Communication
Vorwort	J.C. Marshall
Zusatzinfo	XII, 100 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	188 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
Schlagworte	brain • Experiment • Gedächtnis • Insects • Plant • Proliferation • Semantik • Sex
ISBN-10	3-642-67217-5 / 3642672175
ISBN-13	978-3-642-67217-0 / 9783642672170
Zustand	Neuware