Chunking and Consolidation: A Theoretical Synthesis of Semantic Networks, Configuring in Conditioning, S-R versus Cognitive Learning, Normal Forgetting, the Amnesic Syndrome, and the Hippocampal Arousal System.

Wickelgren, Wayne A.

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Publication Date: 1979-Jan

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Chunking and Consolidation: A Theoretical Synthesis of Semantic Networks, Configuring in Conditioning, S-R versus Cognitive Learning, Normal Forgetting, the Amnesic Syndrome, and the Hippocampal Arousal System.

Wickelgren, Wayne A.

Psychological Review, v86 n1 p44-60 Jan 1979

Horizontal vs vertical associative memory is defined. Vertical associative memory involves chunking--specifying new nodes representing combinations of old nodes. Chunking is the basis of semantic memory and cognitive learning. The hippocampal (limbic) arousal system is critical to the chunking process; its disruption produces the amnesic syndrome. (Author/SJL)

Descriptors: Association (Psychology), Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Conditioning, Learning Processes, Memory, Neurological Impairments, Neurological Organization, Psychophysiology, Recall (Psychology)

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Language: English

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