Figure 2.

Selection and retrieval demands within the tasks. Items with high selection and low retrieval demands are those with many highly associated responses, and items with low selection and high retrieval demands are those with one weakly associated response. The stimuli were either verb cues in the verb generation task, or sentence cues in the sentence completion task. Even if selection and retrieval demands are similar in LSAs, each task places different predictive and syntactic demands on the semantic system that could influence performance. Selection and retrieval demands were measured continuously in a relative semantic space using LSA entropy and association strength, respectively, computed at the item level separately for each task.