SynthesisPsychological bulletin2017
Taxonomic and thematic semantic systems.
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83 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Functional connectivity of semantic and default mode networks during narrative comprehension.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
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- Uncovering patterns of semantic predictability in sentence processing.Journal of memory and language · 2025Article
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging of taxonomic and thematic processing of abstract and concrete word pairs.Journal of neuropsychology · 2025Article
- Global precedence effects account for individual differences in taxonomic and thematic relations recognition performance.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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Abstract
Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful actions. Concepts can have 2 very different kinds of relations: similarity relations based on shared features (e.g., dog-bear), which are called "taxonomic" relations, and contiguity relations based on co-occurrence in events or scenarios (e.g., dog-leash), which are called "thematic" relations. Here, we report a systematic review of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience evidence of this distinction in the structure of semantic memory. We propose 2 principles that may drive the development of distinct taxonomic and thematic semantic systems: differences between which features determine taxonomic versus thematic relations, and differences in the processing required to extract taxonomic versus thematic relations. This review brings together distinct threads of behavioral, computational, and neuroscience research on semantic memory in support of a functional and neural dissociation, and defines a framework for future studies of semantic memory. (PsycINFO Database Record
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