Sounds like uncontrolled free association: > "One particularly interesting class of semantic networks is a network of free associations [14–18]. This class of

Sounds like uncontrolled free association: > "One particularly interesting class of semantic networks is a network of free associations [14–18]. This class of networks is obtained in the following real experiment. Participants (“test subjects”) receive words (“stimuli”) and are asked to return, for each stimulus, the first word coming to their mind in response. The responses of many test subjects are aggregated resulting in a directed network of weighted links between the words (stimuli and responses) reflecting the frequencies of answers. The study of these networks has a long history [14, 15]." https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0248986 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...