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Spreading activation

Spreading activation is a method for searching associative networks, biological and artificial neural networks, or semantic networks. The search process is initiated by labeling a set of source nodes (e.g. concepts in a semantic network) with weights or "activation" and then iteratively propagating or "spreading" that activation out to other nodes linked…

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Cognitive psychology

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Spreading activation

Nodes13
Edges12
Triples8
Avg. degree1.85
Density0.153846
Components1

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related to Cognitive psychology · 6
Spreading activation → As, For, In, The, This, When
is a · 2
Spreading activation → method for searching associative networks, theory of how the brain iterates through a network of associated ideas to retrieve specific information

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activation spreading nodes network semantic node value cognitive associated graph real source weights psychology target range number networks algorithm firing

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Spreading activationis amethod for searching associative networks0.90text
Spreading activationis atheory of how the brain iterates through a network of associated ideas to retrieve specific information0.90text
Spreading activationrelated to Cognitive psychologyAs0.60section
Spreading activationrelated to Cognitive psychologyThe0.60section
Spreading activationrelated to Cognitive psychologyIn0.60section
Spreading activationrelated to Cognitive psychologyWhen0.60section
Spreading activationrelated to Cognitive psychologyFor0.60section
Spreading activationrelated to Cognitive psychologyThis0.60section

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