In this article we consider three versions of the spreading activation model for retrieval of information from memory. Predictions are derived for activation spreading down a linear network structure as a function of time. To test these predictions, two experiments were performed in which facilitation as a function of time was measured for target words in a linearly structured paragraph. A targ...

This paper presents two experiments exploring context effects on human judgment and testing JUDGEMAP’s predictions that irrelevant information such as the color of the stimulus can produce a contrast effect with respect to skewed stimuli set to be judged. The first experiment demonstrates the effect on a perceptual judgment task (judging the length of lines which are colored in red and green), ...

Summarization of multiple documents featuring multiple topics is discussed. The example trea.ted here consists of fifty articles about the Peru hostage incident tbr ])ecember 1996 through April 1997. They include a. lot of topics such as opening, negotiation, ending, and so on. The method proposed in this paper is based on spreading activation over documents syntactically and semantically annot...

Comprehension is determined by the content of memory. The verbalized concepts reflect the information that is in the focus of attention. Mental models of text must be formed in order to achieve coherence in language understanding. Constructing a mental model requires continual interaction between the text and the reader's linguistic, pragmatic, and world knowledge. In this article, a connection...

In this study, the authors propose a computational cognitive model for sign language (SL) perception and comprehension with detailed algorithmic descriptions based on functionalities in human processing. The semantic network (SNM) that represents relations between concepts is used as form of knowledge representation. proposed applied classifier predicates. spreading activation search method ini...

The knowledge graph, which is an ontology based representation technique, is described to model the information necessary to conduct collaborative filtering, content-based filtering and knowledge based recommendation methods. Spreading activation and network science based recommendation methods are presented and evaluated. The evaluation measures are calculated on top list recommendations, wher...

this study examined whether processing ambiguous sentences containing relative clauses (rcs) following a complex determiner phrase (dp) by persian-speaking learners of l2 english with different proficiency and working memory capacities (wmcs) is affected by semantic priming. the semantic relationship studied was one between the subject/verb of the main clause and one of the dps in the complex d...

Modelling how a word is activated in human memory is an important requirement for determining the probability of recall of a word in an extra-list cueing experiment. The spreading activation, spooky-action-at-a-distance and entanglement models have all been used to model the activation of a word. Recently a hypothesis was put forward that the mean activation levels of the respective models are ...

Modelling how a word is activated in human memory is an important requirement for determining the probability of recall of a word in an extra-list cueing experiment. The spreading activation, spooky-action-at-a-distance and entanglement models have all been used to model the activation of a word. Recently a hypothesis was put forward that the mean activation levels of the respective models are ...