Cognitive economy refers to a principle of hierarchical semantic networks such that properties and facts about a node are stored at the highest level possible. For example, the fact “is alive” would be stored with the node for “animal” rather than stored with each node under animal, such as “dog,” “cat,” and the like; a characteristic of semantic memory in which information is only represented once within a semantic network.

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