title: Imageability effects in word naming: an individual differences analysis.
abstract: The present research was designed to extend research by Strain, Patterson, and Seidenberg (1995) who found that imageability facilitates naming of low-frequency irregular words. Experiment 1 shows that the impact of imageability on word naming varies with phonological coding skill. In Experiment 2, the effect of imageability on naming low-frequency irregular words was shown to occur across an extended set of items. Together, the present findings support the notion that semantics may play a role in phonological coding when the mappings between orthography and phonology are weak.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK. estrain@bridge.anglia.ac.uk
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Strain
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Herdman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003071:Cognition; D004538:Eidetic Imagery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D014825:Vocabulary