Human memory search as a random walk in a semantic network

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 3041-3049

  Abbott, Joshua T ^a   Austerweil, Joseph L ^a   Griffiths, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BETWEEN CLUSTERS; HUMAN MEMORY; INTERNET SEARCH ENGINE; INTERNET SEARCHES; PEOPLE SEARCHES; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SINGLE PROCESS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEARCH ENGINES;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84877773159     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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