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Dynamics of the attentional control of word retrieval: Analyses of response timedistributions
| Venue: | Journal of Experimental PsychologyGeneral,137(2), 303–323. Roelofs, A., & the hemod 85–97. Roelofs, A |
| Citations: | 21 - 12 self |
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@ARTICLE{Roelofs_dynamicsof,
author = {Ardi Roelofs and J. D. Cohen},
title = {Dynamics of the attentional control of word retrieval: Analyses of response timedistributions},
journal = {Journal of Experimental PsychologyGeneral,137(2), 303–323. Roelofs, A., & the hemod 85–97. Roelofs, A},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
association strength, which determines retrieval latency and whether irrelevant words interfere. A symbolic account (A. Roelofs, 2003) holds that goals enable retrieval rules and predicts no strict dependence of interference on latency. Here, 3 chronometric experiments in which the role of relative retrieval latency was investigated through distributional analyses, following Watt, are reported. Partic-ipants verbally categorized picture–word pairs that were semantically related or unrelated, or they categorized single pictures or words. The pairs yielded semantic latency effects in both word and picture categorizing, although single words were categorized slower than single pictures. Semantic effects occurred in word categorizing even when postexposure of the pictures compensated for the difference in categorizing latency. Vincentile and ex-Gaussian analyses revealed that the semantic effects occurred throughout the latency distributions, excluding goal neglect as the cause of the effects. The results were interpreted as most consistent with the symbolic account, which was corroborated by computer simula-tions.
Keyphrases
response timedistributions attentional control word retrieval semantic effect single picture symbolic account categorized picture word single word picture categorizing goal neglect irrelevant word latency distribution distributional analysis semantic latency effect computer simula-tions chronometric experiment ex-gaussian analysis retrieval latency association strength goal enable retrieval rule strict dependence relative retrieval latency
