I really, really need to learn how to write article introductions like this...

The British poet Philip Larkin once famously quipped that sexual intercourse began in 1963, between the end of the Lady Chatterley ban and the arrival of the Beatles’ first LP. Just as remarkably, though perhaps less sensationally, semantic memory appears to have begun around the same time. The first documented use of the termis probably the title of Quillian’s (1966) Ph.D. thesis; it subsequently appeared as part of the title of the well-known article by Collins and Quillian (1969) and, even more famously, in Tulving’s (1972) chapter on the distinction between episodic and semantic memory.

Of course, even before the 1960s, everyone really knew that people had semantic memory (as well as sex), but it is perhaps not so surprising that semantic memory has only recently achieved independent status...

...now that would really help our papers to get accepted!!!!