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#203713 - 12/08/11 04:29 AM words and science
storms stranger Registered: 12/08/11 Posts: 4 Loc: belgium	Dear all, Word associations have been very important in the study of word meanings in cognitive science. Currently, different professors are trying to build a network of word associations in English. In order to do this, we need many native (or at least very fluent) English speakers to participate in a small fun tast that does not take more than five minutes. In the task, we present a short list of words and ask people to write down the first three words they think of after reading the cue word. In order to build the network, we need about 100 participants responding to every cue word and we need thousands of cue words. That implies that we need thousands of participants. It seems a lot, but we've done this before: we succeeded over the past few years of reaching about 80.000 perticipants in Flanders and in the Netherlands to do the task in Dutch. However, since English is THE scientific language worldwide, it would be much more interesting to build a similar network in English. So if you have five minutes of spare time, please visit http://www.smallworldofwords.com As the dataset will be open for all interested scientists, you will help many of us by participating. It would even be better if you can spread this call by e-mail, facebook, or other means. If you have suggestions about other ways in which we can reach people willing to participate in this small task, please don't hesitate to contact us. My coordinates are given below. With kind regards, Professor Dr. Gert Storms Department of Psychology University of Leuven Tiensestraat 102 3000 Leuven Belgium E-mail: gert.storms@psy.kuleuven.be
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#203719 - 12/08/11 11:05 AM Re: words and science [Re: storms]
LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/08 Posts: 5289 Loc: Land of the Flat Water	Interesting, thank you for the opportunity. _________________________ ----please, draw me a sheep----
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