Subcategory vs category fluency: Items and networks in healthy young adults and simulation with a large language model.

Category fluency tasks involve producing words constrained by a semantic field (animals). Subcategory fluency involves producing words from categories that are semantically related to a superordinate category but form a restricted set of items (farm animals). Here, we study whether people produce di...

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Published in:	Memory & Cognition Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 2270 - 2289
Main Authors:	Rofes, Adrià, van Dijk, Demi, Zemla, Jeffrey C.
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Aug2026
Subjects:	Netherlands Communicative competence Task performance Analysis of variance Semantics College students Phonetics Research funding Phonological awareness Natural language processing Descriptive statistics Simulation methods in education Phonology Thought & thinking
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