APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Semantic Relatedness of Word Associations in School-Age Children and Adults
- Obeid Rita
Lehman College, The City University of New York - Fiza Akram
Staten Island Technical High School - Alexandria Garzone
The College of Staten Island, The City University of New York - Fabienne Geara
The College of Staten Island, The City University of New York - Patricia Brooks
The College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Abstract
Children (6–11 years) and adults performed a repeated word-associations task. Semantic relatedness of responses was estimated using latent semantic analysis (LSA) and continuous bag of words (CBOW). Participants produced stronger associations for verbs than nouns; relatedness of responses decreased over repetitions. CBOW was more sensitive than LSA to age effects.
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