The primacy of experience in language processing: Semantic priming is driven primarily by experiential similarity.

ABSTRACT: The organization of semantic memory, including memory for word meanings, has long been a central question in cognitive science. Although there is general agreement that word meaning representations must make contact with sensory-motor and affective experiences in a non-arbitrary fashion, the nature of this relationship remains controversial. One prominent view proposes that word meanings are represented directly in terms of their experiential content (i.e., sensory-motor and affective representations). Opponents of this view argue that the representation of word meanings reflects primarily taxonomic structure, that is, their relationships to natural categories. In addition, the recent success of language models based on word co-occurrence (i.e., distributional) information in emulating hum

SUBMITTER: Fernandino L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11326522 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature