About
This data was collected by Jeremy Tree (Psychology Department, Swansea University), using a word association task designed by Tess Fitzpatrick. The single participant had been diagnosed with semantic dementia, and was tested 4 times at approximately 6 month intervals. The test used a total of 98 cue words selected from the second and third thousand most frequently occurring words on the British National Corpus.
Outputs related to this data include:
- Fitzpatrick, T., Tree, J. and Playfoot, D. (in preparation). Word association behaviour in semantic dementia.
Please cite the information and data on this page as: Fitzpatrick, T., Mills, T., and Morris, S. (2025). Finding, Sharing and Losing Words: Understanding the Mental Lexicon [Fitzpatrick, T., Tree, J. and Playfoot, D. Word association in Semantic Dementia]. Swansea University. https://mental-lexicon.swansea.ac.uk/.
Data
By downloading the following file, you agree to use this dataset under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
| File | Link |
| Semantic Dementia Word Association Dataset | Dataset.xlsx |
Acknowledgments
This data was collected by Tess Fitzpatrick and Jeremy Tree and Dave Playfoot in an unfunded project.