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Description
A central question in cognitive science is how prior knowledge—shaped by experience across modalities—guides the formation and organization of semantic memory. In this talk, I will explore how semantic memory emerges from cumulative linguistic, visual, and auditory experiences. Drawing on distributional semantic models, I will show how structured patterns reflect deeply rooted modality-specific and modality-independent priors. For instance, linguistic priors play a dominant role in word-based tasks, while visual and auditory priors exert stronger effects in image-based and sound-based tasks, respectively. I will also present EEG evidence revealing how the brain dynamically integrates multimodal priors during memory encoding and retrieval. Together, these findings offer a richer understanding of how semantic memory is shaped by multisensory experience.
| If you're submitting a symposium talk, what's the symposium title? | Semantic Memory: A Multidimensional System Under Control |
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| If you're submitting a symposium, or a talk that is part of a symposium, is this a junior symposium? | No |
