PSY 654 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Semantic Dementia, Semantic Network, Temporal Lobe
17 Jan 2016
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Damage to the atl has been connected with semantic de cits in dementia patients and with the savant syndrome. A process by which learning can occur in a connectionist network, in which an error signal is transmitted backward through the network. This backward- transmitted error signal provides the information needed to adjust the weights in the network to achieve the correct output signal for a stimulus. In rosch"s categorization scheme, the level below the global (superordinate) level (e. g. , Table or chair for the superordinate category furniture ). According to rosch, the basic level is psychologically special because it is the level above which much information is lost and below which little is gained. The process by which objects are placed in categories. Groups of objects that belong together because they belong to the same class of objects, such as houses, furniture, or schools.
