Putting concepts into context
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2016Autor
Yee, Eiling
Thompson-Schill, Sharon L.
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Yee, E. & Thompson-Schill, S.L. Psychon Bull Rev (2016) 23: 1015. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-015-0948-7
Resumen
At first glance, conceptual representations (e.g., our
internal notion of the object Blemon^) seem static; we have the
impression that there is something that the concept lemon
Bmeans^ (a sour, yellow, football-shaped citrus fruit) and that
this meaning does not vary. Research in semantic memory has
traditionally taken this Bstatic^ perspective. Consequently, only
effects demonstrated across a variety of contexts have typically
been considered informative regarding the architecture
of the semantic system. In this review, we take the opposite
approach: We review instances of context-dependent conceptual
activation at many different timescales—from long-term
experience, to recent experience, to the current task goals, to
the unfolding process of conceptual activation itself—and
suggest that the pervasive effects of context across all of these
timescales indicate that rather than being static, conceptual
representations are constantly changing and are inextricably
linked to their contexts.