Picture naming shows a cumulative semantic interference effect: Latency for naming a target picture increases as a function of the number of pictures semantically similar to the target that have previously been named (Howard, Nickels, Coltheart, & Cole-Virtue, Cognition 100:464-482, 2006). Howard and colleagues, and also Oppenheim, Dell, and Schwartz (Cognition 114:227-252, 2010), argued that this occurs because of the joint presence in the picture-naming system of three critical properties: shared activation, priming, and competition. They also discussed the possibility that whenever any cognitive system possesses these three properties, a cumulative similarity-based interference effect from repeated use of that cognitive system will occur. We investigated this possibility by looking for a cumulative lexical interference effect when the task is reading aloud: Will the latency of reading a target word aloud increase as a function of the number of words orthographically/phonologically similar to the target that have previously been read aloud? We found that this was so. This supports the general idea that cumulative similarity-based interference effects will arise whenever any cognitive system that possesses the three key properties of shared activation, priming, and competition is repeatedly used.
Titolo: | Reading aloud: the cumulative lexical interference effect |
Autori: | C., Mulatti; F., Peressotti; Job, Remo; S., Saunders; M., Coltheart |
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Titolo del periodico: | PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW |
Anno di pubblicazione: | 2012 |
Numero e parte del fascicolo: | 4 |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-84864096742 |
Codice identificativo Pubmed: | 22623265 |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000306284900013 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-012-0269-z |
Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/92313 |
Appare nelle tipologie: | 03.1 Articolo su rivista (Journal article) |