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Semantic context effects in language production: A swinging lexical network proposal and a review
- LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE PROCESSES
, 2009
"... The investigation of semantic context effects has served as a valuable tool in investigating mechanisms of language production. Classic semantic interfer-ence effects have provided influential support for and interest in a competitive lexical selection mechanism. However, recent interest in semantic ..."
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The investigation of semantic context effects has served as a valuable tool in investigating mechanisms of language production. Classic semantic interfer-ence effects have provided influential support for and interest in a competitive lexical selection mechanism. However, recent interest in semantic facilitation effects has stimulated a discussion on whether context effects reflect competition during lexical selection. In this review we propose a framework of lexical selection by competition that is sensitive to the activation of lexical cohorts. We outline our proposal and then present a selective review of the empirical evidence, much of which has been central to the development of alternative non-competitive models. We suggest that by adopting the assumptions of our proposal we can parsimoniously account for a majority of the discussed semantic facilitation and interference effects.
Attention, gaze shifting, and dual-task interference from phonological encoding in spoken word planning
, 2008
"... Controversy exists about whether dual-task interference from word planning reflects structural bottleneck or attentional control factors. Here, participants named pictures whose names could or could not be phonologically prepared, and they manually responded to arrows presented away from (Experiment ..."
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Controversy exists about whether dual-task interference from word planning reflects structural bottleneck or attentional control factors. Here, participants named pictures whose names could or could not be phonologically prepared, and they manually responded to arrows presented away from (Experiment 1), or superimposed onto, the pictures (Experiments 2 and 3); or they responded to tones (Experiment 4). Pictures and arrows/tones were presented at stimulus onset asynchronies of 0, 300, and 1,000 ms. Earlier research showed that vocal responding hampers auditory perception, which predicts earlier shifts of attention to the tones than to the arrows. Word planning yielded dual-task interference. Phonological preparation reduced the latencies of picture naming and gaze shifting. The preparation benefit was propagated into the latencies of the manual responses to the arrows but not to the tones. The malleability of the interference supports the attentional control account. This conclusion was corroborated by computer simulations showing that an extension of WEAVER (A. Roelofs, 2003) with assumptions about the attentional control of tasks quantitatively accounts for the latencies of vocal responding, gaze shifting, and manual responding.
REVIEW
, 1992
"... Internal water molecules and H-bonding in biological macromolecules: A review of structural features with functional implications(1) ..."
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Internal water molecules and H-bonding in biological macromolecules: A review of structural features with functional implications(1)
Attention, exposure duration, and gaze shifting in naming performance
, 2011
"... Two experiments are reported in which the role of attribute exposure duration in naming performance was examined by tracking eye movements. Participants were presented with color-word Stroop stimuli and left- or right-pointing arrows on different sides of a computer screen. They named the color attr ..."
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Two experiments are reported in which the role of attribute exposure duration in naming performance was examined by tracking eye movements. Participants were presented with color-word Stroop stimuli and left- or right-pointing arrows on different sides of a computer screen. They named the color attribute and shifted their gaze to the arrow to manually indicate its direction. The color attribute (Experiment 1) or the complete color-word stimulus (Experiment 2) was removed from the screen 100 ms after stimulus onset. Compared with presentation until trial offset, removing the color attribute diminished Stroop interfer-ence, as well as facilitation effects in color naming latencies, whereas removing the complete stimulus diminished interference only. Attribute and stimulus removal reduced the latency of gaze shifting, which suggests decreased rather than increased attentional demand. These results provide evidence that limiting exposure duration contributes to attribute naming performance by diminishing the extent to which irrelevant attributes are processed, which reduces attentional demand.
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"... Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: A review and critical evaluation ..."
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Using the visual world paradigm to study language processing: A review and critical evaluation
Language and Cognitive Processes Cascaded processing in written naming: Evidence from the picture-picture interference paradigm
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DOI 10.3758/s13421-011-0171-3 Distractor strength and selective attention in picture-naming performance
, 2011
"... # The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Whereas it has long been assumed that competition plays a role in lexical selection in word production (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999), recently Finkbeiner and Caramazza (2006) argued against th ..."
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# The Author(s) 2011. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract Whereas it has long been assumed that competition plays a role in lexical selection in word production (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, 1999), recently Finkbeiner and Caramazza (2006) argued against the competition assumption on the basis of their observation that visible distractors yield semantic interference in picture naming, whereas masked distractors yield semantic facilitation. We examined an alternative account of these findings that preserves the competition assumption. According to this account, the interference and facilitation effects of distractor words reflect whether or not distractors are strong enough to exceed a threshold for entering the competition process. We report two experiments in which distractor strength was manipulated by means of coactivation and visibility. Naming performance was assessed in terms of mean response time (RT) and RT distributions. In Experiment 1, with low coactivation, semantic facilitation was obtained from clearly visible distractors, whereas poorly visible distractors yielded no semantic effect. In Experiment 2, with high coactivation, semantic interference was obtained from both clearly and poorly visible distractors. These findings support the competition threshold account of the polarity of semantic effects in naming.
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE
, 2012
"... doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00028 Picture-induced semantic interference reflects lexical competition during object naming ..."
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doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00028 Picture-induced semantic interference reflects lexical competition during object naming
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, 2011
"... doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00319 Phonological planning during sentence production: beyond the verb ..."
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doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00319 Phonological planning during sentence production: beyond the verb
