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The emergence of richly organized semantic knowledge from simple statistics

A synthetic review

Bibliographic Data

ID19385692
AuthorsLayla Unger (0000-0002-8888-1265, The Ohio State University, corresponding author), Anna V Fisher (0000-0002-6661-7922, Carnegie Mellon University)
Year2021
Volume60
Pages100949
Publication date2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueDevelopmental Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0273-2297 • E-ISSN: 1090-2406
PublisherElsevier BV (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.dr.2021.100949
PMID33840880
OpenAlexW3135040010
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited152

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