According to the feature-based model of semantic memory, concepts are described by a set of semantic features that contribute, with different weights, to the meaning of a concept. Interestingly, this ...

Dogs May Possess a Type of Memory Once Considered ‘Uniquely Human’ New research suggests that man’s best friend remembers more than we thought ...

This division reflects the model of sensorial-functional memory proposed several years ago, to explain how semantic memory works. According to this approach, there is a part of semantic memory, the ...

Now, using voxel-based mapping, a team of UC Berkeley researchers have pinned down the brain regions where we handle certain topics and ideas: a 3D semantic atlas of the brain.