Concept information
Preferred term
conceptual structure account
Definition(s)
- A theory and connectionist model of how concepts are represented in semantic memory and processed according to the interaction between two statistical properties of their semantic features: distinctiveness (the degree to which a feature is shared with other concepts or can distinguish one concept from another) and correlation (the degree to which features co-occur). According to this view, living things are thought to have a large number of common features that are highly correlated. Inanimate objects have few semantic features, but these are more distinctive.
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Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Taylor, K. I., Moss, H. E., & Tyler, L. K. (2007). The conceptual structure account: A cognitive model of semantic memory and its neural instantiation. In J. Hart & M. Kraut (Eds.), Neural basis of semantic memory (p. 265–301). Cambridge University Press.
[Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
Creator
- Frank Arnould
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-BN576MNL-C
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