Distractor Modality Can Turn Semantic Interference Into Semantic Facilitation in the Picture-Word Interference Task: Implications for Theories of Lexical Access in Speech Production

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1443-1453

  Hantsch, Ansgar ^a   Jescheniak, Jörg D ^a   Schriefers, Herbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

lexical access; lexical competition; picture naming; picture word interference paradigm; speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONFLICT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

ATTENTION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 71649103930     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017020     Document Type: Article

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