--- abstract: "The present study investigated, within the framework of spreading activation model, whether or not nodes are activated in a hierarchical fashion in the memory network. If, for example, activation of plant spreads to flower and then to rose, subjects should take longer to detect the relation between plant and rose than that between either plant and flower or flower and rose. The results of an experiment conducted to test the above hypothesis showed a significant difference between subjects' RTs for the three kinds of word pairs. Appropriate post-hoc comparisons of the mean RTs supported the hypothesis of this study. That is, the time taken for subjects to detect the relation between pairs such as plant-rose was significantly greater than the time taken for them to detect the relation between the words in either plant-flower or flower-rose pair types.\n" altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Sharifian given: F. honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Samani given: R. honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997 date_type: published datestamp: 2002-02-01 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/20/61 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: - family: Sharifian given: F. honourific: '' lineage: '' eprint_status: archive eprintid: 2061 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/2061/1/act1.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Network Models of Memory, Spreading Activation' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:53 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: 1-10 pubdom: FALSE publication: "Proc. of the Int'l Conference on Language, Cognition, and Interpretation" publisher: IAU Press refereed: TRUE referencetext: |- Anderson, J. R. (1976). Language, memory and thought. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. Anderson, J. R. (1983a). The architecture of cognition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Anderson, J. R. (1983b). A spreding activation theory of memory, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 261-295. Anderson, J. R. (1995). Cognitive psychology and its implications (4th ed.). New York: W. H. Freeman. Balota, D. A. (1983). Automatic semantic activation and episodic memory encoding.Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 88-104. Balota, D. A., & Lorch, R. F.(1986). Depth of automatic spreading activation: Mediated priming effects in pronunciation but not in lexical decision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, Cognition, 12, 336-345. Collins, A., and Quillian, M. (1969). Retrieval time from semantic memory. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 8, 240-248. de Groot, A. M. B. (1983). The range of automatic spreading activation in word priming. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 22, 417- 436. Loftus, E. F. (1974). Activation of semantic memory. American Journal of Psychology, 86, 331-337. Lorch, R. F. (1982). Priming and search processes in semantic memory: A test of three models of spreading activation. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 468-492. McClelland. J. I., & Rumelhart, D. E. (1981). An interactive activation model of context effects in letter perception: Part 1. an account of basic findings. Psychological Review, 88, 375-407. McNamara, T. P., & Diwadkar V. A. (1996). The context of memory retrieval. Journal of Memory and Language, 35, 877-892. Neely, J. H. (1977). Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited capacity attention.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 106, 226-254. Ratcliff, R., & McKoon, G. (1981). Does activation really spread? Psychological Review, 88, 454-462. Reder, L. M. & Anderson, J. R. (1980). A partial solution of the paradox of interference: The role of integrating knowledge. Cognitive Psychology, 12, 447-472. Roelofs, A. (1992). A spreading-activation theory of lemma retrieval in speaking. Cognition, 42, 107-142. relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:42:41 subjects: - cog-psy - psy-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Hierarchical spreading of activation type: bookchapter userid: 1255 volume: ~