Semantic distance effects on object and action naming

Graded interference effects were tested in a naming task, in parallel for objects and actions. Participants named either object or action pictures presented in the context of other pictures (blocks) that were either semantically very similar, or somewhat semantically similar or semantically dissimil...

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Published in:Cognition 2002-10, Vol.85 (3), p.B61-B69
Main Authors: Vigliocco, Gabriella, Vinson, David P, Damian, Markus F, Levelt, Willem
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Cognition
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Language
Lexical semantics
Memory
Miscellaneous
Naming
Nouns
Nouns and verbs
Objects and actions
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Random Allocation
Semantic memory
Semantics
Verbs
Visual Perception
Vocabulary
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Summary:Graded interference effects were tested in a naming task, in parallel for objects and actions. Participants named either object or action pictures presented in the context of other pictures (blocks) that were either semantically very similar, or somewhat semantically similar or semantically dissimilar. We found that naming latencies for both object and action words were modulated by the semantic similarity between the exemplars in each block, providing evidence in both domains of graded semantic effects.
ISSN:0010-0277
1873-7838
DOI:10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00107-5