Semantic memory
In cognitive Psychology, the semantic memory is the mnemic system by which the individual stores his general knowledge (factual knowledge on the world, definitions of abstracted concepts, etc). It is a base of knowledge, a store of information which we all have and including one great part is accessible for us quickly and without effort. According to Tulving in 1972, it is the memory necessary to the use of the language, it is a mental thesaurus, the organized knowledge that an individual has for the words, the nonverbal symbols and their significances. The semantic memory does not record the properties of the stimuli but rather the cognitive referents of the entry signals.
The semantic memory, preserved in the amnesic Syndrome, constitutes the memory of the words, the concepts, general knowledge on the world, located apart from any context of encoding. Certain theories open however the possibility that emergent knowledge semantics by fusion of episodical memories (thus related to contexts). Thus a collection of memories of experiments of beach end up making emerge a decontextualized concept of the beach.
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