Word associations: Network and semantic properties

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 213-231

  De Deyne, Simon ^a,b   Storms, Gert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Departement Psychologie   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; FOOD; HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; SEMANTICS;

ALGORITHMS; CUES; FOOD; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 43249124711     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.1.213     Document Type: Article

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