Concept information
Preferred term
small-world network
Definition
- A model of semantic memory in which concepts are organized in networks with the characteristics of a small world: first, there are clusters in which concepts are densely connected by semantic relations, and second, two concepts belonging to distant clusters can be connected by a short path of semantic relations, with some concepts in clusters playing the role of hubs.
Broader concept
Belongs to group
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• Steyvers, M., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2005). The large-scale structure of semantic networks: Statistical analyses and a model of semantic growth. Cognitive science, 29(1), 41–78. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog2901_3
[Study type: empirical study / Access: free]
Creator
- Frank Arnould
Model of
In other languages
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French
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-QQG0VLT7-7
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