A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.

1975 · Psychological Review · 8,166 citations · 6 from inside this corpus

Allan M. Collins low, Elizabeth F. Loftus

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Human Associative Memory	2013	2,038
Structure and process in semantic memory: A featural model for semantic decisions.	1974	1,384

What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Intelligent Tutoring Systems	1985	3,135
Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy	1995	2,155
Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Pr…	1999	2,094
Development and application of a metric on semantic nets	1989	1,825
Using Information Content to Evaluate Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy	1995	1,766
ConceptNet — A Practical Commonsense Reasoning Tool-Kit	2004	1,592

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Speech and dialogue systems	Computer Science
Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning	Computer Science
Child and Animal Learning Development	Psychology

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