Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults

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Favarotto, Victoria; García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia; Magani, Fiorella; Vivas, Jorge Ricardo
Año de publicación
2014
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The study of the organization of semantic memory has become of great interest in the cognitive psychology field and in neuropsychological research. Semantic knowledge considered to be represented by concepts, which can be related taxonomically (when they are hierarchically organized) or thematically (when they are linked by cross-categorical relations). Both relations arise from distinct processes, as evidenced by numerous neuropsychological and behavioral dissociations. Many works have stated that the production of thematic relations outnumbers that of taxonomic relations in children, and that as they grow older a thematic-to-taxonomic shift occurs, while others claim that such a shift does not take place and state that one major problem is that the tasks used in previous studies to assess concept-relations are biased. In our work we performed a feature production task in such a way that subjects could freely associate concepts with their features. Our results, using this non-biased-task, show that the evocation of taxonomic relations was higher in the adult group (formed by thirty 20-to 40-year-olds) compared to the children group (formed by forty-eight 6-to 9-year-olds), but that, nonetheless, thematic relations were still present in the adult group. This suggests, instead of a thematic-to-taxonomic shift in adulthood, the coexistence of both types of relations, which is crucial to research on language structure and conceptual knowledge. Thus, our results contribute to the understanding of semantic knowledge organization and provide valuable groundwork to the development of clinical instruments used in neuropsychological tests to assess language, attention and semantic memory, where precise information of concept-relations is crucial.
Fil: Favarotto, Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; Argentina
Fil: García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; Argentina
Fil: Magani, Fiorella. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias; Argentina
Fil: Vivas, Jorge Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; Argentina
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Evocation
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spelling Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young AdultsFavarotto, VictoriaGarcía Coni Bosch, Ana VirginiaMagani, FiorellaVivas, Jorge RicardoCognitive PsychologyConceptsTaxonomic RelationsThematic RelationsEvocationhttps://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5The study of the organization of semantic memory has become of great interest in the cognitive psychology field and in neuropsychological research. Semantic knowledge considered to be represented by concepts, which can be related taxonomically (when they are hierarchically organized) or thematically (when they are linked by cross-categorical relations). Both relations arise from distinct processes, as evidenced by numerous neuropsychological and behavioral dissociations. Many works have stated that the production of thematic relations outnumbers that of taxonomic relations in children, and that as they grow older a thematic-to-taxonomic shift occurs, while others claim that such a shift does not take place and state that one major problem is that the tasks used in previous studies to assess concept-relations are biased. In our work we performed a feature production task in such a way that subjects could freely associate concepts with their features. Our results, using this non-biased-task, show that the evocation of taxonomic relations was higher in the adult group (formed by thirty 20-to 40-year-olds) compared to the children group (formed by forty-eight 6-to 9-year-olds), but that, nonetheless, thematic relations were still present in the adult group. This suggests, instead of a thematic-to-taxonomic shift in adulthood, the coexistence of both types of relations, which is crucial to research on language structure and conceptual knowledge. Thus, our results contribute to the understanding of semantic knowledge organization and provide valuable groundwork to the development of clinical instruments used in neuropsychological tests to assess language, attention and semantic memory, where precise information of concept-relations is crucial.Fil: Favarotto, Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; ArgentinaFil: García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; ArgentinaFil: Magani, Fiorella. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias; ArgentinaFil: Vivas, Jorge Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; ArgentinaElsevier Science2014-09info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11336/34819Favarotto, Victoria; García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia; Magani, Fiorella; Vivas, Jorge Ricardo; Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults; Elsevier Science; Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences; 140; 9-2014; 92-971877-0428CONICET DigitalCONICETenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.04.391info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/url/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042814033175info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ar/reponame:CONICET Digital (CONICET)instname:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas2025-10-15T14:43:42Zoai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/34819instacron:CONICETInstitucionalhttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://ri.conicet.gov.ar/oai/requestdasensio@conicet.gov.ar; lcarlino@conicet.gov.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:34982025-10-15 14:43:43.287CONICET Digital (CONICET) - Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicasfalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
title Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
spellingShingle Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
Favarotto, Victoria
Cognitive Psychology
Concepts
Taxonomic Relations
Thematic Relations
Evocation
title_short Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
title_full Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
title_fullStr Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
title_full_unstemmed Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
title_sort Semantic Memory Organization in Children and Young Adults
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Favarotto, Victoria
García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia
Magani, Fiorella
Vivas, Jorge Ricardo
author Favarotto, Victoria
author_facet Favarotto, Victoria
García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia
Magani, Fiorella
Vivas, Jorge Ricardo
author_role author
author2 García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia
Magani, Fiorella
Vivas, Jorge Ricardo
author2_role author
author
author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Cognitive Psychology
Concepts
Taxonomic Relations
Thematic Relations
Evocation
topic Cognitive Psychology
Concepts
Taxonomic Relations
Thematic Relations
Evocation
purl_subject.fl_str_mv https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5.1
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/5
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv The study of the organization of semantic memory has become of great interest in the cognitive psychology field and in neuropsychological research. Semantic knowledge considered to be represented by concepts, which can be related taxonomically (when they are hierarchically organized) or thematically (when they are linked by cross-categorical relations). Both relations arise from distinct processes, as evidenced by numerous neuropsychological and behavioral dissociations. Many works have stated that the production of thematic relations outnumbers that of taxonomic relations in children, and that as they grow older a thematic-to-taxonomic shift occurs, while others claim that such a shift does not take place and state that one major problem is that the tasks used in previous studies to assess concept-relations are biased. In our work we performed a feature production task in such a way that subjects could freely associate concepts with their features. Our results, using this non-biased-task, show that the evocation of taxonomic relations was higher in the adult group (formed by thirty 20-to 40-year-olds) compared to the children group (formed by forty-eight 6-to 9-year-olds), but that, nonetheless, thematic relations were still present in the adult group. This suggests, instead of a thematic-to-taxonomic shift in adulthood, the coexistence of both types of relations, which is crucial to research on language structure and conceptual knowledge. Thus, our results contribute to the understanding of semantic knowledge organization and provide valuable groundwork to the development of clinical instruments used in neuropsychological tests to assess language, attention and semantic memory, where precise information of concept-relations is crucial.
Fil: Favarotto, Victoria. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; Argentina
Fil: García Coni Bosch, Ana Virginia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; Argentina
Fil: Magani, Fiorella. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Fisiología, Biología Molecular y Neurociencias; Argentina
Fil: Vivas, Jorge Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Psicología. Centro De Investigación en Procesos Básicos, Metodologías y Educación; Argentina
description The study of the organization of semantic memory has become of great interest in the cognitive psychology field and in neuropsychological research. Semantic knowledge considered to be represented by concepts, which can be related taxonomically (when they are hierarchically organized) or thematically (when they are linked by cross-categorical relations). Both relations arise from distinct processes, as evidenced by numerous neuropsychological and behavioral dissociations. Many works have stated that the production of thematic relations outnumbers that of taxonomic relations in children, and that as they grow older a thematic-to-taxonomic shift occurs, while others claim that such a shift does not take place and state that one major problem is that the tasks used in previous studies to assess concept-relations are biased. In our work we performed a feature production task in such a way that subjects could freely associate concepts with their features. Our results, using this non-biased-task, show that the evocation of taxonomic relations was higher in the adult group (formed by thirty 20-to 40-year-olds) compared to the children group (formed by forty-eight 6-to 9-year-olds), but that, nonetheless, thematic relations were still present in the adult group. This suggests, instead of a thematic-to-taxonomic shift in adulthood, the coexistence of both types of relations, which is crucial to research on language structure and conceptual knowledge. Thus, our results contribute to the understanding of semantic knowledge organization and provide valuable groundwork to the development of clinical instruments used in neuropsychological tests to assess language, attention and semantic memory, where precise information of concept-relations is crucial.
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