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Semantic Compression of Episodic Memories [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Storing knowledge of an agent's environment in the form of a probabilistic generative model has been established as a crucial ingredient in a multitude of cognitive tasks. Perception has been formalised as probabilistic inference over the state of latent
Nagy, David G.   +2 more
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The pivotal role of semantic memory in remembering the past and imagining the future

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2013
Episodic memory refers to a complex and multifaceted process which enables the retrieval of richly detailed evocative memories from the past. In contrast, semantic memory is conceptualised as the retrieval of general conceptual knowledge divested of a ...
Muireann eIrish   +5 more
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The philosophy of memory today and tomorrow: Editors' introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the chapters making up the book, which are grouped into six sections: challenges and alternatives to the causal theory of memory; activity and passivity in remembering; the affective dimension of memory ...
Debus, Dorothea   +2 more
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Explaining semantic short-term memory deficits:evidence for the critical role of semantic control [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Patients with apparently selective short-term memory (STM) deficits for semantic information have played an important role in developing multi-store theories of STM and challenge the idea that verbal STM is supported by maintaining activation in the ...
Acheson   +64 more
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Memory in autism spectrum disorder: a meta-analysis of experimental studies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
To address inconsistencies in the literature on memory in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), we report the first ever meta-analysis of short-term (STM) and episodic long-term (LTM) memory in ASD, evaluating the effects of type of material, type of retrieval
Baylete, J-M.   +8 more
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Semantic Memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
How is it that we know what a dog and a tree are, or, for that matter, what knowledge is? Our semantic memory consists of knowledge about the world, including concepts, facts and beliefs. This knowledge is essential for recognizing entities and objects, and for making inferences and predictions about the world.
Yee, Eiling   +2 more
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Autobiographically Significant Concepts: More Episodic than Semantic in Nature? An Electrophysiological Investigation of Overlapping Types of Memory [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A common assertion is that semantic memory emerges from episodic memory, shedding the distinctive contexts associated with episodes over time and/or repeated instances.
Campbell, Kenneth   +6 more
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Episodic and Semantic Memory Contribute to Familiar and Novel Episodic Future Thinking

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Increasing evidence indicates that episodic future thinking (EFT) relies on both episodic and semantic memory; however, event familiarity may importantly affect the extent to which episodic and semantic memory contribute to EFT. To test this possibility,
Tong Wang, Tong Yue, Xi ting Huang
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Bilingual episodic memory: an introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Our current models of bilingual memory are essentially accounts of semantic memory whose goal is to explain bilingual lexical access to underlying imagistic and conceptual referents.
Aneta Pavlenko   +14 more
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Representation, space and Hollywood Squares: Looking at things that aren't there anymore [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
It has been argued that the human cognitive system is capable of using spatial indexes or oculomotor coordinates to relieve working memory load (Ballard, Hayhoe, Pook & Rao, 1997) track multiple moving items through occlusion (Scholl & Pylyshyn, 1999) or
Richardson, Daniel, Spivey, Michael
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