Abstract: Department of PsychologyUniversity of PennsylvaniaInvited chapter for LSA: A Road Toward Meaning. In press September 8, 2005AbstractIn remembering a list of words, subjects’ order of recall can reveal the in-fluence of both semantic and temporal associations among items. In thischapter, we examine how well measures of semantic relatedness (e.g., Lan-dauer & Dumais, 1997; Steyvers, Shiffrin, & Nelson, 2004) predict the orderof subject’s recalls. Analysis of recall transitions reveal that subtle varia-tions in semantic relatedness strongly influence memory retrieval. Contraryto the view that temporal and semantic similarity strictly compete as re-trieval cues, the data reveal that these two factors are separately modifiable,at least under certain conditions. These findings are not easily reconciledwithin current models of episodic and semantic memory.A central function of episodic memory is to form and utilize associations betweenitems experienced at nearby times. In addition to these newly–formed episodic associations,subjects enter the laboratory with a great deal of knowledge about verbal stimuli. Studyingthe relation between episodic and pre–existing, or semantic, associations can help shedlight on the processes that lead to episodic retrieval. One prominent view is that episodicmemory and semantic memory are separate memory systems (Tulving, 1983, 2002), and
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-02-17
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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