Text S1 - Modeling Abnormal Priming in Alzheimer's Patients with a Free Association Network

Provides supplementary insight to the main text's messages. On one hand, it develops further the concept of network degradation and explores the structure's robustness. On the other, the main text closely follows experimental results that report hyperpriming; thus our theoretical framework has scarce empirical evidence to compare with. Text S1 synthetically enlarges the dataset on which hyperpriming can be found, by using another psycholinguistic data source. Finally, some statistical facts are highlighted so as to remark the that enhanced performance (hyperpriming) appears only as a transient phenomenon for a very specific experimental condition (category coordinates), in a general context of cognitive deterioration. (PDF)