title: Primed picture naming within and across languages: an ERP investigation.
abstract: In two experiments, while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded, participants named picture targets that were preceded by masked word primes that corresponded either to the name of the picture target or to an unrelated picture name. Experiment 1 showed significant priming effects in the ERP waveforms, free from articulator artifact, starting as early as 200 msec post target onset. Possible loci of these priming effects were proposed within the framework of generic interactive activation models of word recognition and picture naming. These were grouped into three main components: object-specific structural representations, amodal semantic representations, and word-specific phonological and articulatory representations. Experiment 2 provided an initial test of the possible role of each of these components by comparing within-language repetition priming with priming from translation equivalents in bilingual participants. The early and widespread effects of noncognate translation primes in L1 on picture naming in L2 point to object-specific and amodal semantic representations as the principal loci of priming effects obtained with masked word primes and picture targets.
authors.affiliation: Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Krysta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chauncey
authors.forename: Phillip J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Holcomb
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grainger
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology*; D008959:Models, Neurological; D019303:Multilingualism; D009275:Names; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult
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