Explaining semantic facilitation and interference effects in the picture-word interference task-A rejoinder to Navarrete and Mahon (2013)

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 717-722

  Mädebach, Andreas ^a   Hantsch, Ansgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lexical access; Lexical competition; Picture word interference; Response exclusion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MENTAL TASK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84879174836     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2013.770891     Document Type: Article

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