title: Do perceived context pictures automatically activate their phonological code?
abstract: Morsella and Miozzo (Morsella, E., & Miozzo, M. (2002). Evidence for a cascade model of lexical access in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 28, 555-563) have reported that the to-be-ignored context pictures become phonologically activated when participants name a target picture, and took this finding as support for cascaded models of lexical retrieval in speech production. In a replication and extension of their experiment in German, we failed to obtain priming effects from context pictures phonologically related to a to-be-named target picture. By contrast, corresponding context words (i.e., the names of the respective pictures) and the same context pictures, when used in an identity condition, did reliably facilitate the naming process. This pattern calls into question the generality of the claim advanced by Morsella and Miozzo that perceptual processing of pictures in the context of a naming task automatically leads to the activation of corresponding lexical-phonological codes.
authors.affiliation: University of Leipzig, Germany. jdj@uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Jörg D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Jescheniak
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Oppermann
authors.forename: Ansgar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hantsch
authors.forename: Valentin
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mädebach
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Schriefers
mesh_terms: D001245:Association Learning; D001288:Attention; D003118:Color Perception; D003463:Cues; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D005364:Field Dependence-Independence; D006801:Humans; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010700:Phonetics; D011930:Reaction Time; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D013060:Speech