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Vales, Catarina; Fisher, Anna V. – Cognitive Science, 2019
A large literature suggests that the organization of words in semantic memory, reflecting meaningful relations among words and the concepts to which they refer, supports many cognitive processes, including memory encoding and retrieval, word learning, and inferential reasoning. The co-activation of related items has been proposed as a mechanism by…
Descriptors: Semantics, Memory, Cognitive Processes, Vocabulary Development
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Vasishth, Shravan; Brussow, Sven; Lewis, Richard L.; Drenhaus, Heiner – Cognitive Science, 2008
A central question in online human sentence comprehension is, "How are linguistic relations established between different parts of a sentence?" Previous work has shown that this dependency resolution process can be computationally expensive, but the underlying reasons for this are still unclear. This article argues that dependency…
Descriptors: Sentences, Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Information Retrieval