My takeaway from this and from real life experience is that similar memories are usually what allow us to be able to complete tasks better. Schema theory can apply to this concept for people. I was specifically thinking about how I viewed video game genres. I was talking to someone younger than me and I had to explain beat em ups. I went through a list of different games until I found one that they knew and they responded with "OH, those types of games". 

My next takeaway from this, NLP tokenizers work this way already i believe. Perhaps theres a way to apply this concept to your way or as the term i liked down below, thinking it sooner. Good post, please keep it up.