Semantic Interference in a Delayed Naming Task: Evidence for the Response Exclusion Hypothesis

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 249-256

  Janssen, Niels ^a,b   Schirm, Walter ^c   Mahon, Bradford Z ^a,d   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,d  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

delayed naming; lexical selection by competition; picture word interference; response exclusion hypothesis; semantic interference effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PATTERN RECOGNITION; REACTION TIME; READING; RECEPTIVE FIELD; SEMANTICS;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 38649137722     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.1.249     Document Type: Article

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