Skip to content

The online platform for Taylor & Francis Group content

Cookies Notification

This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies. Find out more.
Advanced and citation search

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volume 28, Issue 5, 2013

Special Issue:   Lexical Competition in Language Production

Translator disclaimer
Time course analysis of the effects of distractor frequency and categorical relatedness in picture naming: An evaluation of the response exclusion account

Time course analysis of the effects of distractor frequency and categorical relatedness in picture naming: An evaluation of the response exclusion account

PreviewView full textDownload full text
Access options
DOI:
10.1080/01690965.2011.608026
Peter A. Starrevelda*, Wido La Heijb & Rinus Verdonschotb

pages 633-654

  • Received: 3 Nov 2010
  • Accepted: 1 Jul 2011
  • Published online: 16 Dec 2011
Article Views: 196
Article usage statistics combine cumulative total PDF downloads and full-text HTML views from publication date (but no earlier than 25 Jun 2011, launch date of this website) to 30 Apr 2015. Article views are only counted from this site. Although these data are updated every 24 hours, there may be a 48-hour delay before the most recent numbers are available.
Alert me

Abstract

The response exclusion account (REA), advanced by Mahon and colleagues, localises the distractor frequency effect and the semantic interference effect in picture naming at the level of the response output buffer. We derive four predictions from the REA: (1) the size of the distractor frequency effect should be identical to the frequency effect obtained when distractor words are read aloud, (2) the distractor frequency effect should not change in size when stimulus-onset asynchrony (SOA) is manipulated, (3) the interference effect induced by a distractor word (as measured from a nonword control distractor) should increase in size with increasing SOA, and (4) the word frequency effect and the semantic interference effect should be additive. The results of the picture-naming task in Experiment 1 and the word-reading task in Experiment 2 refute all four predictions. We discuss a tentative account of the findings obtained within a traditional selection-by-competition model in which both context effects are localised at the level of lexical selection.

Keywords

Related articles

View all related articles
 

Details

  • Received: 3 Nov 2010
  • Accepted: 1 Jul 2011
  • Published online: 16 Dec 2011

Routledge

Author affiliations

  • a Brain and Cognition , University of Amsterdam , Amsterdam , The Netherlands
  • b Cognitive Psychology Unit , Leiden University , Leiden , The Netherlands

Author notes

  • Peter A. Starreveld -

    Peter A. Starreveld, Brain and Cognition, University of Amsterdam; Wido La Heij, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University; Rinus Verdonschot, Cognitive Psychology Unit, Leiden University, and Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition, Leiden University, and Centre for Linguistics, Leiden University

Sample our Language & Literature journals, sign in here to start your FREE access for 14 days

Librarians

Authors & Editors

Societies

Help & Information

Taylor & Francis Group