Complex systems approach to natural language

T Stanisz, S Drożdż, J Kwapień - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
The science of complexity aims to answer the question of what rules nature chooses when
assembling the basic constituents of matter and energy into structures and dynamical …

Cognitive network science for understanding online social cognitions: A brief review

M Stella - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Social media are digitalizing massive amounts of users' cognitions in terms of timelines and
emotional content. Such Big Data opens unprecedented opportunities for investigating …

Network psychometrics and cognitive network science open new ways for understanding math anxiety as a complex system

M Stella - Journal of Complex Networks, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Math anxiety is a clinical pathology impairing cognitive processing in math-related contexts.
Originally thought to affect only inexperienced, low-achieving students, recent investigations …

Cognitive network neighborhoods quantify feelings expressed in suicide notes and reddit mental health communities

SM Joseph, S Citraro, V Morini, G Rossetti… - Physica A: Statistical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Writing messages is key to expressing feelings. This study adopts cognitive network science
to reconstruct how individuals report their feelings in clinical narratives like suicide notes or …

Modeling the remote associates test as retrievals from semantic memory

J Schatz, SJ Jones, JE Laird - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a word association retrieval task that consists
of a series of problems, each with three seemingly unrelated prompt words. The subject is …

The impact of adding a fourth item to the traditional 3-item remote associates test

JA Diaz, SM Nelson, AA Beaujean… - Creativity Research …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The compound Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a classic measure of creativity.
Participants are shown three cue words (sore-shoulder-sweat) and asked to generate a …

Cognitive network science quantifies feelings expressed in suicide letters and Reddit mental health communities

SM Joseph, S Citraro, V Morini, G Rossetti… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Writing messages is key to expressing feelings. This study adopts cognitive network science
to reconstruct how individuals report their feelings in clinical narratives like suicide notes or …

Effects of task characteristics and task-switching on remote associates test problem solving

UN Sio, H Lortie-Forgues, JE Marsh - Journal of Cognitive …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Creative problem solving is often viewed as a search process. However, little is known about
the factors that impact this process. To address this question, we conducted two studies to …

K-clique percolation in free association networks and the possible mechanism behind the law

O Valba, A Gorsky - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
It is important to reveal the mechanisms of propagation in different cognitive networks. In this
study, we discuss the k-clique percolation phenomenon as related to the free association …

Network psychometrics and cognitive network science open new ways for detecting, understanding and tackling the complexity of math anxiety: A review

M Stella - arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.13800, 2021 - arxiv.org
Math anxiety is a clinical pathology impairing cognitive processing in math-related contexts.
Originally thought to affect only inexperienced, low-achieving students, recent investigations …