A computational model of semantic memory impairment: Modality specificity and emergent category specificity (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 120(4), 339–357)
Martha J. Farah, James L. McClelland · 2013
How is semantic memory organized? Two general answers to this question have been proposed. One is that semantic memory is organized by taxonomic category, such that different parts of the system represent knowledge about objects from different categories. Alternatively, semantic memory could be subdivided by modality of knowledge, such that one component is responsible for visual information about objects, another for auditory information, and so on.