Lexical selection is not by competition: Evidence from the blocked naming paradigm

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 76, Issue , 2014, Pages 253-272

  Navarrete, Eduardo ^a   Del Prato, Paul ^b   Peressotti, Francesca ^a   Mahon, Bradford Z ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blocked naming; Cyclic naming; Lexical retrieval; Semantic facilitation; Semantic interference; Speech production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907329575     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2014.05.003     Document Type: Article

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