{"pk":29066,"title":"Associations versus Propositions in Memory for Sentences","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Propositional accounts of organization in memory have dominated theory in compositional semantics, but it is an openquestion whether their adoption has been necessitated by the data. We present data from a narrative comprehensionexperiment, designed to distinguish between a propositional account of semantic representation and an associative accountbased on the Syntagmatic-Paradigmatic (Dennis, 2005; SP) model. We manipulated expected propositional-interferenceby including distractor sentences that shared a verb with a target sentence. We manipulated paradigmatic-interferenceby including two distractor sentences, one of which contained a name from a target sentence. That is, we increased thesecond-order co-occurrence between a name in a target sentence and a distractor. Contrary to the propositional assumption,our results show that subjects are sensitive to second-order co-occurrence, hence favouring the associative account.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations with Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8qv7c4q0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Kevin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shabahang","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""},{"first_name":"Hyungwook","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yim","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""},{"first_name":"Simon","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dennis","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Melbourne","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29066/galley/18937/download/"}]}