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The way semantic information is stored in humans has been unraveled to some extent by experimental psychological studies of language production and comprehension. In particular, the mental lexicon where word meanings are stored, probably together with other features of words, has been investigated using different tasks in which word—associations play a major role. For example, it has long been known that a given stimulus word often produces a specific “associated word”, if the person is asked to name “just what comes to mind when hearing ....” In this word-association paradigm, black produces white,lemon produces sour, and sour produces sweet. A large number of studies using word association paradigms suggest that semantic information is stored in the form of an associational network (see Figure 1).
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Maier, S., Spitzer, M. (1999). Network models and formal thought disorder: Associative processes in schizophrenic patients. In: Klabunde, R., von Stutterheim, C. (eds) Representations and Processes in Language Production. Studien zur Kognitionswissenschaft. Deutscher Universitätsverlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-99290-1_10
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