scholarly journals Acoustic and semantic interference effects in words and pictures

1977 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meena Dhawan ◽  
James W. Pellegrino
Keyword(s):  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference

scholarly journals An Information-Theoretic Account of Semantic Interference in Word Production

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Futrell
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Information ◽  
Semantic Similarity ◽  
Rate Distortion ◽  
Word Production ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Human Data ◽  
Level Model ◽  
Computational Level

I present a computational-level model of semantic interference effects in online word production within a rate–distortion framework. I consider a bounded-rational agent trying to produce words. The agent's action policy is determined by maximizing accuracy in production subject to computational constraints. These computational constraints are formalized using mutual information. I show that semantic similarity-based interference among words falls out naturally from this setup, and I present a series of simulations showing that the model captures some of the key empirical patterns observed in Stroop and Picture–Word Interference paradigms, including comparisons to human data from previous experiments.

Cumulative semantic interference across unrelated responses in school-age children's picture naming

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Monique CHAREST ◽  
Tieghan BAIRD
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Lexical Access ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Linear Increase ◽  
Ordinal Position ◽  
Lexical Representation ◽  
School Age ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
School Aged Children

Abstract Naming semantically related images results in progressively slower responses as more images are named. There is considerable documentation in adults of this phenomenon, known as cumulative semantic interference. Few studies have focused on this phenomenon in children. The present research investigated cumulative semantic interference effects in school-aged children. In Study 1, children named a series of contiguous, semantically related pictures. The results revealed no cumulative interference effects. Study 2 utilized an approach more closely aligned with adult methods, incorporating intervening, unrelated items intermixed with semantically related items within a continuous list. Study 2 showed a linear increase in reaction time as a function of ordinal position within semantic sets. These findings demonstrate cumulative semantic interference effects in young, school-aged children that are consistent with experience-driven changes in the connections that underlie lexical access. They invite further investigation of how children's lexical representation and processing are shaped by speaking experiences.

No lexical competition without priming: Evidence from the picture–word interference paradigm

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (12) ◽  
pp. 2562-2570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna S Gauvin ◽  
Magdalena K Jonen ◽  
Jessica Choi ◽  
Katie McMahon ◽  
Greig I de Zubicaray
Keyword(s):  
Interference Effect ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Lexical Competition ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
The Past ◽  
Task Parameters ◽  
Naming Latencies ◽  
And Task

Over the past 40 years, researchers have assumed that semantic interference effects in picture naming reflect competition among lexical candidates during retrieval. In this study, we examined the role of the familiarisation phase in which participants are shown the target pictures and required to rehearse the appropriate names before the picture–word interference (PWI) paradigm is performed. A previous study reported that omitting the familiarisation phase reversed the polarity of the semantic effect to facilitation. In two experiments using between- and within-participants design, respectively, we compared PWI performance with and without familiarisation while using matched stimuli and task parameters. Overall, the results showed the typical semantic interference effect following familiarisation. However, in both experiments, naming latencies did not differ significantly between related and unrelated distractors when familiarisation was omitted. The current findings suggest that familiarisation plays an important role in determining semantic interference in PWI, most likely via raising lexical competitor activation by priming links between targets and related concepts. We also discuss broader implications of our findings with respect to the replicability of reported semantic facilitation effects in PWI.

scholarly journals ACESSO LEXICAL E PRODUÇÃO DE FALA BILÍNGUE: O PROCESSO DE SELEÇÃO LINGUÍSTICA

Organon ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (51) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleana Ortiz Preuss
Keyword(s):  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
Related Condition ◽  
Selection Hypothesis ◽  
Unrelated Condition

This article2 presents the results of an investigation of the pro-duction of bilingual speech, in which interlingual interference effects inthe speech of bilinguals Portuguese-Spanish and Spanish-Portuguese wereanalyzed. The materials, designed within the picture-word interferenceparadigm, language interference (semantic, phonological/ orthographicand identity) and cognate (cognates, not cognates and false cognates) ef-fects were manipulated. The results provide evidence for the language-specific selection hypothesis (Costa et.al., 1999), since the naming laten-cies was faster in the related condition, in contexts involving languageidentity and phonological/ orthographic facilitation efects, as well as inthe unrelated condition, when contexts involved semantic interference ef-fects. Furthermore, the cognate status of words played an important rolein the process of lexicalization, a fact that needs to be further assessed.

scholarly journals Language co-activation and lexical selection in bimodal bilinguals: Evidence from picture–word interference

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARCEL R. GIEZEN ◽  
KAREN EMMOREY
Keyword(s):  
American Sign Language ◽  
Time Course ◽  
Lexical Selection ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
Priming Effects ◽  
Phonological Representations ◽  
Co Activation ◽  
Language Activation ◽  
Cross Language

We used picture–word interference (PWI) to discover a) whether cross-language activation at the lexical level can yield phonological priming effects when languages do not share phonological representations, and b) whether semantic interference effects occur without articulatory competition. Bimodal bilinguals fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) and English named pictures in ASL while listening to distractor words that were 1) translation equivalents, 2) phonologically related to the target sign through translation, 3) semantically related, or 4) unrelated. Monolingual speakers named pictures in English. Production of ASL signs was facilitated by words that were phonologically related through translation and by translation equivalents, indicating that cross-language activation spreads from lexical to phonological levels for production. Semantic interference effects were not observed for bimodal bilinguals, providing some support for a post-lexical locus of semantic interference, but which we suggest may instead reflect time course differences in spoken and signed production in the PWI task.

Cumulative semantic interference in young children's picture naming

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 835-853 ◽  
Author(s):  
MONIQUE CHAREST
Keyword(s):  
Response Latency ◽  
Incremental Learning ◽  
Picture Naming ◽  
Context Effects ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Homogeneous Condition ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
Mixed Condition ◽  
Preschool Aged Children

ABSTRACTIn children and adults, naming an item sometimes interferes with later attempts to name other items. Adult speakers experience cumulative semantic interference, interpreted as the result of incremental learning. Studies to date have not examined whether incremental learning can also account for interference in children. This study examined context effects on picture naming in 3-year-old children, and investigated whether children, like adults, show interference that is semantically based and cumulative. Children named pictures from semantically homogeneous and mixed sets. Response latency, accuracy, and repetition errors were recorded. The results demonstrated a progressive slowing of responses in the semantically homogeneous condition that was greater than that observed for the mixed condition. There were no significant effects for accuracy. Repetition errors, although infrequent, patterned similarly to previous reports for adults. The results indicate that preschool-aged children experience cumulative semantic interference in naming, and suggest that incremental learning may account for interference effects across development.

scholarly journals Cognitive style modulates semantic interference effects: evidence from field dependency

2019 ◽  
Vol 237 (3) ◽  
pp. 755-768
Author(s):  
Raffaele Nappo ◽  
Cristina Romani ◽  
Giulia De Angelis ◽  
Gaspare Galati
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Style ◽  
Interference Effects ◽  
Semantic Interference ◽  
Field Dependency
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