Semantic interpretations in memory

Interpretation Training Influences Memory for Prior Interpretations

Anxiety is associated with memory biases when the initial interpretation of the event is taken into account. This experiment examined whether modification of interpretive bias retroactively affects memory for prior events and their initial interpretation. Before training, participants imagined themselves in emotionally ambiguous scenarios to which they provided endings that often revealed their...

Preserved musical semantic memory in semantic dementia.

OBJECTIVE To understand the scope of semantic impairment in semantic dementia. DESIGN Case study. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENT A man with semantic dementia, as demonstrated by clinical, neuropsychological, and imaging studies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Music performance and magnetic resonance imaging results. RESULTS Despite profoundly impaired semantic memory for words and ob...

Semantic Memory

SEMANTIC MEMORY AND OPTIMAL FORAGING 1 Running head: SEMANTIC MEMORY AND OPTIMAL FORAGING Optimal Foraging in Semantic Memory

Do humans search in memory using dynamic local-to-global search strategies similar to those that animals use to forage between patches in space? If so, do their dynamic memory search policies correspond to optimal foraging strategies seen for spatial foraging? Results from a number of fields suggest these possibilities, including the shared structure of the search problems—searching in patchy e...

Improving the Understandability of OLAP Queries by Semantic Interpretations

Everyday methods providing managers with elaborated information making more comprehensible the results obtained of queries over OLAP systems are required. This problem is relatively recent due to the huge amount of information they store, but so far there are few proposals facing this issue, and they are mainly focused on presenting the information to the user in a comprehensible language (natu...