Priming effects from phonologically related distractors in picture-word interference.
In the cross-modal picture-word interference task, distractors phonologically related to a to-be-named picture facilitate the naming response as compared to unrelated distractors. Our experiment shows that this phonological priming effect can be obtained with as early an SOA as -300 ms. The experiment also demonstrates that this priming effect cannot be attributed to strategic behaviour of the participants as opposed to automatic preactivation processes in the lexical-conceptual system. The implications for studies using the picture-word interference task as a tool for investigating lexicalization processes in speech production are discussed.
Jescheniak
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University of Leipzig and Max-Planck-Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig, Germany. jeschen@cns.mpg.de
Schriefers
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D006801:Humans; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D013060:Speech; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014825:Vocabulary