Simulating retrieval from a highly clustered network: Implications for spoken word recognition

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue DEC, 2011, Pages

  Vitevitch, Michael S ^a   Ercal, Gunes ^b   Adagarla, Bhargav ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b ISTANBUL KULTUR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering coefficient; Mental lexicon; Network science; Simulation; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862245605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00369     Document Type: Article

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