Figure 9.12: A network model of me mory organization This diagram depicts schematically some of the links, or associations, among a tiny fraction of the thousands of different concepts that are stored in a typical person’s long-term semantic memory.
(From Collins, A., & Loftus, E. (1975). A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing. Psychological Review, 82, 407-428. Figure 1, p. 412. Copyright © American Psychological Association.)