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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-26569-0
Introduction.
Semantic knowledge, of the meanings of words and properties of objects,
shapes our understanding of the world and guides our behaviour. Each of
us has a wide range of conceptual knowledge distilled from a lifetime
of experiences. Effective semantic cognition â that is, the ability
to use semantic knowledge to complete cognitive tasks â requires us
to both represent this information in an accessible form and to control
how we access and manipulate it in specific situations.
Long-term semantic representation is essential because it allows
us to generalise knowledge gained from previous experience into novel situations6. If we have a stored representation of the typical
characteristics of, for example, a particular breed of dog, when we
meet a new member of that breed we can predict its likely behaviour.
No! No! No! That is stereotyping, racism, apartheid
or inductive inference.
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