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This chapter reviews theoretical and empirical developments in the scientific understanding of semantic memory and semantic priming. The chapter begins with an historical review of models of semantic memory and the major empirical findings that were used to test those models. I also summarize two contemporary models of semantic memory, distributed network models and high-dimensional spatial models. In the second section of the chapter, I examine semantic priming. I review the most influential models of semantic priming, and then summarize empirical developments, focusing, in particular, on issues that have turned out to be important for testing models of semantic priming. I close with a brief summary of the major conclusions. Keywords: semantic memory; semantic priming; knowledge representation; memory retrieval |
