Naming and categorizing objects: Task differences modulate the polarity of semantic effects in the picture-word interference paradigm

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 760-768

  Hantsch, Ansgar ^a   Jescheniak, Jörg D ^a   Mädebach, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Picture naming; Picture word interference; Psycholinguistics; Speech production

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; DECISION MAKING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 84863431564     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-012-0184-6     Document Type: Article

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