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Semantic memory

Semantic memory refers to general world knowledge that humans have accumulated throughout their lives. This general knowledge (word meanings, concepts, facts, and ideas) is intertwined in experience and dependent on culture. New concepts are learned by applying knowledge gained from things in the past.

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Location of semantic memory in the brain

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Disorders

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Semantic memory

Nodes66
Edges65
Triples90
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030303
Components1

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Semantic memory

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related to history · 15
Semantic memory → According, Donaldson, Endel Tulving, Episodic, He, In, It, Madigan, Memory, One, Reiff, Scheerer, Semantic, The, Tulving
related to Neural correlates and biological workings · 13
Semantic memory → Brain-constrained, Category-specific, Damage, During, Farah, For, Lambon Ralph, Lowe, McClelland, Neuroimaging, Rogers, Temporal, The
related to External links · 11
Semantic memory → Analogue, Archived, HAL, IS, Java, Language, PEN, Plays, Space Package, Statistical, Wayback Machine An
related to Semantic memory disorders · 10
Semantic memory → Category-specific, Close, Comparing, Distant, Extreme, In, Semantic, Stimulus, Temporal, The
related to Models · 7
Semantic memory → According, Instead, Semantic, There, This, Tulving, William Brewer
related to Category-specific semantic impairments · 6
Semantic memory → Animals, Category-specific, Research, Theories, These, This
related to Location of semantic memory in the brain · 6
Semantic memory → Amnesiacs, In, Many, Recently, The, These
related to Modality-specific impairments · 6
Semantic memory → Different, Examples, Modality, Modality-specific, Semantic, Visual
related to Present and future research · 5
Semantic memory → By, PET, Positron, These, Thompson-Schill
is a · 4
Semantic memory → controversial issue with two dominant views.Many researchers and clinicians believe that semantic memory is stored by the same brain systems involved in episodic memory, part, sum of all knowledge one has obtained, teachable language comprehender

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semantic memory episodic knowledge brain temporal category different words specific one information two deficits also word models category-specific impairments categories

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Semantic memoryis asum of all knowledge one has obtained0.90text
Semantic memoryis ateachable language comprehender0.90text
Semantic memoryis apart0.90text
Semantic memoryis acontroversial issue with two dominant views.Many researchers and clinicians believe that semantic memory is stored by the same brain systems involved in episodic memory0.90text
wordsinstance ofThe brain encodes multiple inputs0.80text
pictures to integrateinstance ofThe brain encodes multiple inputs0.80text
create a larger conceptual idea by using amodal viewsinstance ofThe brain encodes multiple inputs0.80text
Semantic memoryrelated to Category-specific semantic impairmentsCategory-specific0.60section
Semantic memoryrelated to Category-specific semantic impairmentsThis0.60section
Semantic memoryrelated to Category-specific semantic impairmentsResearch0.60section
Semantic memoryrelated to Category-specific semantic impairmentsTheories0.60section
Semantic memoryrelated to Category-specific semantic impairmentsThese0.60section

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