Evidence for preferential attachment: Words that are more well connected in semantic networks are better at acquiring new links in paired-associate learning
Here, we view the mental lexicon as a semantic network where words are connected if they are semantically related. Steyvers and Tenenbaum (Cognitive Science, 29, 41–78, 2005) proposed that the growth of semantic networks follows preferential attachment, the observation that new nodes are more likely...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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Springer
2020
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