Keyword

semantic memory

Description: A form of long-term memory for general knowledge, concepts, and meanings that is distinct from memory for specific personal events.

Primary topic: Memory Processes and Influences (20%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q18650

OpenAlex ID: keywords/semantic-memory

A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.

1975 · Allan M. Collins, Elizabeth F. Loftus · Psychological Review · 8,143

Elements of episodic memory

1983 · Endel Tulving · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 6,053

A standardized set of 260 pictures: Norms for name agreement, image agreement, familiarity, and visual complexity.

1980 · Joan G. Snodgrass, Mary Vanderwart · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Learning & Memory · 5,616

Cognitive representations of semantic categories.

1975 · Eleanor Rosch · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 4,781

Overdependence on degraded gist memory in Alzheimer's disease.

2006 · David A. Gallo, Kameron R. Shahid, et al. · Neuropsychology · 4,740

Thirty Years and Counting: Finding Meaning in the N400 Component of the Event-Related Brain Potential (ERP)

2010 · Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier · Annual Review of Psychology · 4,367

Depth of processing and the retention of words in episodic memory.

1975 · Fergus I. Craik, Endel Tulving · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 4,119

Where Is the Semantic System? A Critical Review and Meta-Analysis of 120 Functional Neuroimaging Studies

2009 · Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai, et al. · Cerebral Cortex · 4,058

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Episodic and Semantic Memory

2007 · Carol Brown · Cognitive Psychology · 3,750

Imaging Cognition II: An Empirical Review of 275 PET and fMRI Studies

2000 · Roberto Cabeza, Lars Nyberg · Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience · 3,611

Retrieval time from semantic memory

1969 · Allan M. Collins, M. Ross Quillian · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 3,138

Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain

2007 · Karalyn Patterson, Peter J. Nestor, et al. · Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2,701

The Medial Temporal Lobe

2004 · Larry R. Squire, Craig E.L. Stark, et al. · Annual Review of Neuroscience · 2,672

Priming and Human Memory Systems

1990 · Endel Tulving, Daniel L. Schacter · Science · 2,596

Levels of processing versus transfer appropriate processing

1977 · C. Donald Morris, John D. Bransford, et al. · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 2,294

The language-as-fixed-effect fallacy: A critique of language statistics in psychological research

1973 · Herbert H. Clark · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 2,225

Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension

2000 · Marta Kutas, Kara D. Federmeier · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2,122

Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: A reevaluation

1997 · Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Mark D’Esposito, et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2,122

The neurobiology of semantic memory

2011 · Jeffrey R. Binder, Rutvik H. Desai · Trends in Cognitive Sciences · 2,114

The Representation of Meaning in Memory

1975 · John R. Anderson, Walter Kintsch · The American Journal of Psychology · 2,062

Hemispheric asymmetry reduction in older adults: The HAROLD model.

2002 · Roberto Cabeza · Psychology and Aging · 2,038

Norms of valence, arousal, and dominance for 13,915 English lemmas

2013 · Amy Beth Warriner, Victor Kuperman, et al. · Behavior Research Methods · 1,956

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How many memory systems are there?

1985 · Endel Tulving · American Psychologist · 1,909

The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

2016 · Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferies, et al. · Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 1,859

Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 1959

1960 · Marshall R. Jones · The American Journal of the Medical Sciences · 1,821

Works count: 13,930

Citation count: 478,100