Longer inter-item response times follow larger semantic distances in children's semantic search paths¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2019 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? More distant consecutive animals in word2vec semantic space yielded longer inter-item response times. → Van den Driessche 2019

Evidence¶

Van den Driessche 2019¶

Van den Driessche, C., Chevrier, F., Cleeremans, A. & Sackur, J. (2019). Lower Attentional Skills predict increased exploratory foraging patterns. Scientific Reports 9:10948. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-46761-0

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Mixed-effect linear regression linking word2vec-based semantic distances to time-stamped inter-item response times in the semantic fluency task; the authors read this as children behaving "as explorers" in semantic space. No effect size printed.

"more distant animals in semantic space yielded longer IRTs (β = 8.203, SD = 0.675, df = 2177, t = 12.147, p < 0.0001–mixed effect linear regression with participants as random factor)"

Discussion¶

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