PROLEGOMENA OF SEMANTIC MEMORY: STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES

Abstract

The purpose of the work consists in an attempt to develop a comprehensive theoretical and empirical basis of the algorithm for the processes of recognition and understanding of those values that make up the elements of musical speech. The methodological basis of the work, in this perspective, is the concept of semantic perception of information, which was laid out by J. Hofman in his study of memory as an active process. Turning to the interdisciplinary discourse, we used such methods as analytical, descriptive and empirical. The scientific novelty of this study lies in the precedent of extrapolation of the empirical scheme of transformation of a visually perceived word – as a set of typographic signs into a word-as-carrier-of-meaning into the sphere of musical performing, interpretive art. Conclusions. The considered developments in the field of recognition and representation of values in mind and their extrapolation to the field of performance and musicology make it possible to present the prolegomena of semantic memory in the following hierarchical outline of the following steps: ultra-short-term memory – which is the space corresponding to the process of semantic coding; semantic coding, which is a derivative of ultrashort- term memory and represents a simple registration of sensory influences; semantic identification – which acts as a stage of constructive-logical or theoretical recognition of the meaning of noto-graphic or audio information, which is preceded by the step of sensory analysis and corresponding visual/ auditory representation as a process of derivative recoding into phonemic/ sound intonation form; semantic interpretation, which is a process of deep and essential recognition of meanings and is actually a tool for understanding an element of musical speech as one that acquires meaning in accordance with the figurative meaning it carries – and significantly beyond the framework of its formally identified construction.