Journal article
On the Continuity of Thought and the Representation of Knowledge: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Time-Course Measures Reveal Levels of Structure in Semantic Memory
Psychonomic bulletin & review, v 3(3), pp 265-286
01 Sep 1996
PMID: 24213929
Abstract
Conventional & electrophysiological studies of the time course of semantic verification tasks are reviewed & reinterpreted to draw general theoretical conclusions about semantic memory structure. Results of reaction time & speed-accuracy tradeoff experiments are examined with particular attention given to studies by Kounios & others that apply a speed-accuracy decomposition technique to semantic verification tasks & to semantic relations & demonstrate the existence of all-or-none processing in semantic memory & semantic judgments. Whereas techniques requiring overt responses are subject to contamination by contextual variables that affect decision processes, event-related potentials provide fine-grained temporal data & relatively imprecise anatomical data free from the influence of decision processes. Evidence from measurements of the N400 component indicates at least three levels of semantic memory - microstructure, macrostructure, & a global level - to which possible approaches are assessed. Studies of the macrostructural level suggest that context-independent & -dependent types of semantic information are potentially isolable & analyzable. 1 Table, 6 Figures, 89 References. Adapted from the source document
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- Title
- On the Continuity of Thought and the Representation of Knowledge: Electrophysiological and Behavioral Time-Course Measures Reveal Levels of Structure in Semantic Memory
- Creators
- John Kounios - Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, Penn
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, v 3(3), pp 265-286
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1996VJ21500001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0002753755
- Other Identifier
- 991020548383204721
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- Psychology, Experimental
- Psychology, Mathematical