Cognitive Network Science: A Review of Research on Cognition through the Lens of Network Representations, Processes, and Dynamics

Figure 6

The three growth models of semantic networks. Note that the models make different predictions about which words are more likely to be acquired first despite having the same underlying network structure. Smaller, grey nodes indicate the words already known to the normative child and larger white nodes are words that are not yet learned. The red node is more likely to be acquired before the other nodes based on the model’s prediction. Adapted from Hills et al. [35].