Lexical Selection Is Not by Competition: A Reinterpretation of Semantic Interference and Facilitation Effects in the Picture-Word Interference Paradigm

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 503-535

  Mahon, Bradford Z ^a,b   Costa, Albert ^c   Peterson, Robin ^d   Vargas, Kimberly A ^a   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

competition; lexical access; semantic distance; semantic facilitation; semantic interference

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34547417976     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.33.3.503     Document Type: Article

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