Networks of interconnected nodes have long played a key role in Cognitive Science, from
artificial neural networks to spreading activation models of semantic memory. Recently …

During the last ten years several studies have appeared regarding language complexity.
Research on this issue began soon after the burst of a new movement of interest and …

Word associations have been used widely in psychology, but the validity of their application
strongly depends on the number of cues included in the study and the extent to which they …

Semantic distance is a determining factor in cognitive processes, such as semantic priming,
operating upon semantic memory. The main computational approach to compute semantic …

The number of people using online social networks in their everyday life is continuously
growing at a pace never saw before. This new kind of communication has an enormous …

The mental lexicon contains the knowledge about words acquired over a lifetime. Acentral
question is how this knowledge is structured and changes over time. Here wepropose to …

Semantic memory is the subsystem of human memory that stores knowledge of concepts or
meanings, as opposed to life-specific experiences. How humans organize semantic …

Similarity plays an important role in organizing the semantic system. However, given that
similarity cannot be defined on purely logical grounds, it is important to understand how …

Complex networks describe how entities in systems interact; the structure of such networks
is argued to influence processing. One measure of network structure, clustering coefficient …

Research about individual learner variables in L2 learning has not yet addressed in depth
creativity as potentially relevant in the field. This study seeks to examine whether creativity is …