ABSTRACT

It may be useful to sum up where we have got to so far. What I have called passive knowledge refers to a permanent long-term repository of mental representations which constitutes a record of past experiences of the world. Knowledge may take the form of conceptual semantic knowledge which has been abstracted from many similar experiences of objects and events; it may take the form of personal memories, including autobiographical facts and autobiographical events; it may take the form of rules and procedures for producing and interpreting language.