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semantic processing CONCEPT
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the cognitive processing of extracting meaning from any form of language (e.g. human language, programming language) as well as formal logics and semiotics

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Asserted relationships to other concepts

semantic processing
is a kind of
  • spreading activation
    • semantic processing
    is a part of
  • semantic categorization
    • are a kind of
    semantic processing
  • combinatorial semantics
    • are a part of
    semantic processing
    No associations

    Tasks that are asserted to measure semantic processing

    Task Contrast Measure
    word-picture verification task
    • response time to non-matching minus response time to matching
    word generation task
    • number of words divided by time
    semantic association task
    • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
    semantic anomaly judgement task
    • accuracy on semantically anomalous sentences minus accuracy on semantically correct sentences
    • d' (difference between correct identifications and false alarms)
    category fluency test
    • total correct responses for all categories

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