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What are the similarities and differences between perception-based (a.k.a. mental or perceptual imagery) and meaning-based representations (a.k.a. knowledge representation)?
How do we process meaningful memories for verbal information? Does being warned have any impact on how we process the information (check Wanner [1968] experiment)?
How do we process meaningful memories for visual information? How good is our visual memory for pictures and sentences? Explain the reason for the conflicting evidence about the accuracy of our memory for visual material.
What information is more probably to be retained in memory?
meaningful
mnemonic techniques?
Association by meaningful interpretation
semantic networks
information about various categories is stored in a network structure
What are propositional representations/used for?
structured, language like units of meaning (subject/predicate/action)
What are schemas/used for?
categorical knowledge according to a slot structure/ dog and tiger
What are scripts/used for? What is their relationship with schemas?
event schemas that are used to reason about prototypical events like sequence of actions/help make predictions about comprehension
Non-symbolic representation
represented by weights on connections in a network/pattern recognition/motor skills/noise tolerant
non-meaningful information
symbolic representation
Described with language/top down approach/semantic/propositional network
