 If instead "fruits" was primed, they would likely name "cherries" and continue on from there.The activation of pathways in the network has everything to do with how closely linked two concepts are by meaning, as well as how a subject is primed.A directed graph is populated by Nodes[ 1...N ] each having an associated activation value A [ i ] which is a real number in the range [ 0.0 ... 1.0].