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On the representation and retrieval of stored semantic information
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This article measured the reaction time (RT) of true-false decisions about two kinds of logical assertions while varying the set relation and sizes of the semantic categories S and P, and concluded that at least two types of information about semantic categories, names of categories they intersect and representations of their attributes, are stored in memory.About:
This article is published in Cognitive Psychology.The article was published on 1970-08-01. It has received 216 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Semantic memory.read more
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Semantic richness and the activation of concepts in semantic memory: Evidence from event-related potentials
TL;DR: It is shown that richness influences the magnitude, but not the latency, of the P2 and N400 ERP components (which are early relative to behavioral responses), suggesting that effects of richness on RT reflect temporal effects on downstream decision or response mechanisms rather than on upstream concept activation.
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Quantification and semantic memory
TL;DR: In this article, two models are considered for how people verify explicitly quantified sentences, such as All fathers are parents and Some mothers are mothers, where the first stage involves a serial, selfterminating search among names of categories that intersect the predicate category.
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High-Speed Scanning in Human Memory
TL;DR: When subjects judge whether a test symbol is contained in a short memorized sequence of symbols, their mean reaction-time increases linearly with the length of the sequence, implying the existence of an internal serial-comparison process.
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The discovery of processing stages: Extensions of Donders' method
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that stage-durations may be additive without being stochastically independent, a result that is relevant to the formulation of mathematical models of RT.
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Retrieval time from semantic memory
Allan Collins,M. Ross Quillian +1 more
TL;DR: The results of a true-false reaction-time task were found to support the hypothesis about memory organization that a canary is a bird and birds can fly.
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Retrieval time from semantic memory
Allan Collins,M. Ross Quillian +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, two possible organizations of long-term memory were proposed: the first one is to store only the generalization that birds can fly, and the second is to infer that a canary is a bird from the stored information that canary can fly.