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Semantic memory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

Timothy P. McNamara
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37240 mcnamara@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu

Abstract

Glenberg tries to explain how and why memories have semantic content. The theory succeeds in specifying the relations between two major classes of memory phenomena – explicit and implicit memory – but it may fail in its assignment of relative importance to these phenomena and in its account of meaning. The theory is syntactic and extensional, instead of semantic and intensional.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

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