Retrieval from semantic memory
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Retrieval from semantic memory
(Springer series in language and communication, v. 5)
Springer-Verlag, 1979
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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.- 3.1 Experiment 1: The Production of Exemplars.- 3.2 Experiment 2: The Grouping of the Exemplars.- 3.3 Experiment 3: The Categorization of the Exemplars.- 3.4 Semantic Relations Between Two Exemplars.- 3.5 Experiment 4: The Categorization of Pairs of Exemplars.- 4 The Verification of Hierarchical Relations.- 4.1 Experiment 1.- 4.1.1 Method.- 4.1.2 Results.- 4.1.3 Discussion.- 4.2 Experiment 2.- 4.2.1 Method.- 4.2.2 Results.- 4.2.3 Discussion.- 4.3 Experiment 3.- 4.3.1 Method.- 4.3.2 Results and Discussion.- 4.4 Experiment 4.- 4.4.1 Method.- 4.4.2 Results.- 4.4.3 Discussion.- 4.5 Conclusion.- II Generalization to Another Task.- 5 Judging the Semantic Similarity in a Hierarchical Domain.- 5.1 Method.- 5.2 Results.- 5.3 Discussion.- III Generalization to Another, Semantic Domain.- 6 The Kinship Domain.- 6.1 Experiment 1: Judging the Semantic Similarity Between Kinship Terms.- 6.2 Experiment 2: The Production of Kinship Terms.- 7 The Verification of Kinship Relations.- 7.1 Experiment 1.- 7.1.1 Method.- 7.1.2 Results.- 7.1.3 Discussion.- 7.2 Experiment 2.- 7.2.1 Method.- 7.2.2 Results.- 7.2.3 Discussion.- 7.3 General Discussion and Conclusion.- 8 Summary and Conclusion.- 8.1 Summary.- 8.2 Conclusion.- References.- Author Index.
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