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Memory is one of the most important functions of the human brain, yet its understanding — why and how it does what it does — has so far eluded us. Research in memory has been a frustrating task not least because of the intimate familiarity with what we are trying to understand, and partly also because the human cognitive system has developed as an interactive whole; it is difficult to isolate its component modules — a necessary prerequisite for their thorough elucidation.
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Vaina, L.M. (1984). Towards a Computational Theory of Semantic Memory. In: Vaina, L., Hintikka, J. (eds) Cognitive Constraints on Communication. Synthese Language Library, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9188-6_6
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