Contextual effects on word production : A lifespan study

The effect of sentence priming on picture naming was investigated across the lifespan, from age 3 to 87 years. Names that are normally acquired before 3 years of age were presented in auditory contexts that were semantically congruent, incongruent, or neutral in relation to each picture and its name...

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Published in:Memory & cognition 2000-07, Vol.28 (5), p.756-765
Main Authors: ROE, K, JAHN-SAMILO, J, JUAREZ, L, MICKEL, N, ROYER, I, BATES, E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult. Elderly
Age
Age Factors
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Child development
Child, Preschool
Cues
Developmental psychology
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Language acquisition
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Reaction Time
Semantics
Sensory perception
Vocabulary
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Summary:The effect of sentence priming on picture naming was investigated across the lifespan, from age 3 to 87 years. Names that are normally acquired before 3 years of age were presented in auditory contexts that were semantically congruent, incongruent, or neutral in relation to each picture and its name. Sentential priming was present at all age levels. Facilitation (neutral vs. congruent) was significantly by 4 years of age and did not vary significantly with age. Interference (incongruent vs. neutral) was significant at all age levels, but changed nonmonotonically with age (largest in the youngest children, stable from young adulthood through age 70, with a small increase in the oldest participants). We conclude that picture naming is a useful tool for the investigation of sentential priming effects across the lifespan and that it can reveal potentially interesting developmental changes in the effects of sentential context on word retrieval.
ISSN:0090-502X
1532-5946
DOI:10.3758/BF03198410