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No influence

There should be no influence given two text forms are semantically identical.

Our memory isn't a tape recorder

Had our brain worked like tape-recorder, storing and retrieving information would be far less efficient - both in terms of resources (amount of neurons) and time (to store or retrieve). Remembering a full sentence gives us little - its meaning that is what important.

It is associative

So our brain and memory, being a network, and so is our memory is associative, meaning everything: Everything we remember is represented by a complex sub-network of links and neurons.

So theThe exact words in a sentence quickly turn (as they move bottom up) into higher level verbal models which represent the actual semantics.

Try it yourself, 40 seconds later

You don't remember every word in this answer (doubt you remember the starting word in the previous sentence - 'So'), but you do remember its overall meaning.

So, any changes to the text form, particularly if the exposure time between them does not allow them to stay in our working memory, should have no influence.

No influence

There should be no influence given two text forms are semantically identical.

Our memory isn't a tape recorder

It is associative

So our brain, being a network, and so is our memory is associative, meaning everything we remember is represented by a complex sub-network of links and neurons.

So the exact words in a sentence quickly turn (as they move bottom up) into higher level verbal models which represent the actual semantics.

Try it yourself, 40 seconds later

You don't remember every word in this answer (doubt you remember the starting word in the previous sentence - 'So'), but you do remember its overall meaning.

So, any changes to the text form, particularly if the exposure time between them does not allow them to stay in our working memory, should have no influence.

No influence

There should be no influence given two text forms are semantically identical.

Our memory isn't a tape recorder

It is associative

So our brain and memory, being a network, is associative: Everything we remember is represented by a complex sub-network of links and neurons.

The exact words in a sentence quickly turn (as they move bottom up) into higher level verbal models which represent the actual semantics.

Try it yourself, 40 seconds later

You don't remember every word in this answer (doubt you remember the starting word in the previous sentence - 'So'), but you do remember its overall meaning.

So, any changes to the text form, particularly if the exposure time between them does not allow them to stay in our working memory, should have no influence.

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created Dec 9, 2015 at 22:58

Izhaki

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No influence

There should be no influence given two text forms are semantically identical.

Our memory isn't a tape recorder

It is associative

So our brain, being a network, and so is our memory is associative, meaning everything we remember is represented by a complex sub-network of links and neurons.

So the exact words in a sentence quickly turn (as they move bottom up) into higher level verbal models which represent the actual semantics.

Try it yourself, 40 seconds later

You don't remember every word in this answer (doubt you remember the starting word in the previous sentence - 'So'), but you do remember its overall meaning.

So, any changes to the text form, particularly if the exposure time between them does not allow them to stay in our working memory, should have no influence.