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Retrieval from Semantic Memory

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  • © 1979

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Authors:
  1. Wietske Noordman-Vonk

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Springer Series in Language and Communication (SSLAN, volume 5)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 1-9

  3. Statistical Analysis of the Reaction Time Data

    1. Statistical Analysis of the Reaction Time Data

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 10-14

  4. A Model for Verifying Semantic Relations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Selection of the Material from the Hierarchical Domain

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 17-28

    3. The Verification of Hierarchical Relations

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 29-48

  5. Generalization to Another Task

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Judging the Semantic Similarity in a Hierarchical Domain

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 51-60

  6. Generalization to Another Semantic Domain

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Kinship Domain

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 63-68

    3. The Verification of Kinship Relations

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 69-82

    4. Summary and Conclusion

      • Wietske Noordman-Vonk
      Pages 83-88

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 89-100
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Wietske Noordman-Vonk

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Retrieval from Semantic Memory

  • Authors: Wietske Noordman-Vonk

  • Series Title: Springer Series in Language and Communication

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67215-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-67217-0Published: 18 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-67215-6Published: 07 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0172-620X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 100

  • Topics: Acoustics

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