Graph analysis of semantic word association among children, adults, and the elderly

This study used graph analysis to investigate how age differences modify the structure of semantic word association networks of children and adults and if the networks present a small-world structure and a scale-free distribution which are typical of natural languages. Three age groups of Brazilian...

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Main Authors: Maxciel Zortea, Bruno Menegola, Aline Villavicencio, Jerusa Fumagalli de Salles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2014-03-01
Series:Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722014000100011&lng=en&tlng=en