Evidence for preferential attachment: Words that are more well connected in semantic networks are better at acquiring new links in paired-associate learning.

Psychon Bull Rev · 2020 · PMC7546987 · PMID 32638328

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failed to reach statistical significancep = .175not close (p > 0.1)

Their interaction also failed to reach statistical significance ( b = −0.08, z = −1.36, p = .175; for model summary, see Table 3 ).

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