Fig. 7.

Mean standardized difference scores (with error bars) between the final activation of words with low clustering coefficients and words with high clustering coefficients with the same degree in Simulation Study 2. The difference score was obtained by subtracting the final activation of the high C word from the final activation of the low C word with the same degree and for the same retention parameter (i.e., for each value of degree, nine difference scores represented the nine different retention values [.1 to .9, in increments of .1]). The mean difference score was obtained by averaging across all retention values. In almost all cases, the final activation value of words with low clustering coefficients was greater than the final activation value of words with high clustering coefficients