An Ecological Alternative to Snodgrass &amp; Vanderwart: 360 High Quality Colour Images with Norms for Seven Psycholinguistic Variables

Moreno-Martínez, F. Javier; Montoro, Pedro R.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037527

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“…There was no significant distractor condition by age interaction [ F (2, 38) = 0.23, ns ] (see Figure a). Collapsed across age groups, the percent naming accuracy obtained in the current study (70.5%) is on par with the target pictures’ percent name agreement (72%) that was reported in the picture database norming studies (Brodeur et al., ; Moreno‐Martinez & Montoro, ). Moreover, as noted in the methods section, these accuracies reflect our strict accuracy criteria.…”

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Neural evidence for phonologically based language production deficits in older adults: An fMRI investigation of age‐related differences in picture‐word interference

2017

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IntroductionOlder adults often show declines in phonological aspects of language production, particularly for low‐frequency words, but maintain strong semantic systems. However, there are different theories about the mechanism that may underlie such age‐related differences in language (e.g., age‐related declines in transmission of activation or inhibition).MethodsThis study used fMRI to investigate whether age‐related differences in language production are associated with transmission deficits or inhibition deficits. We used the picture‐word interference paradigm to examine age‐related differences in picture naming as a function of both target frequency and the relationship between the target picture and distractor word.ResultsWe found that the presence of a categorically related distractor led to greater semantic elaboration by older adults compared to younger adults, as evidenced by older adults’ increased recruitment of regions including the left middle frontal gyrus and bilateral precuneus. When presented with a phonologically related distractor, patterns of neural activation are consistent with previously observed age deficits in phonological processing, including age‐related reductions in the recruitment of regions such as the left middle temporal gyrus and right supramarginal gyrus. Lastly, older, but not younger, adults show increased brain activation of the pre‐ and postcentral gyri as a function of decreasing target frequency when target pictures are paired with a phonological distractor, suggesting that cuing the phonology of the target disproportionately aids production of low‐frequency items.ConclusionsOverall, this pattern of results is generally consistent with the transmission deficit hypothesis, illustrating that links within the phonological system, but not the semantic system, are weakened with age.

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Neural evidence for phonologically based language production deficits in older adults: An fMRI investigation of age‐related differences in picture‐word interference

2017

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“…This animacy advantage also cannot be attributed to animate objects in the present study being more familiar than the inanimate objects. Using the ratings provided by Moreno-Martinez and Montoro (2012), there was a tendency for the inanimate objects to be rated as more familiar than the animate objects.…”

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Animacy increases second target reporting in a rapid serial visual presentation task

Guerrero

Calvillo

2016

Psychon Bull Rev

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Attentional blink occurs when two target items, T1 and T2, are presented within brief moments of each other in a series of rapidly presented items and participants fail to report T2. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of characteristics of T2 on T2 reporting. Participants (N = 67) completed 4 blocks of 40 trials. Each trial consisted of 15 images, two of which were designated as T1 and T2. T2 was manipulated in three ways: animacy (animate or inanimate), threat (threatening or nonthreatening), and lag (200 ms or 400 ms after T1). The results indicated that more T2s were reported at the longer lag and that animate objects were reported more often than inanimate objects at both lags. Threat did not have a significant effect on T2 reporting although it interacted with lag: threatening objects were reported more frequently than nonthreatening objects at lag 2 but this trend reversed at lag 4. The results were consistent with the animate monitoring hypothesis, which claims that animate objects, because of their importance in ancestral environments, attract attention more easily than inanimate objects. Animate objects appear to capture attention more easily than inanimate objects as second targets in a rapid serial visual presentation task. This result is similar to animacy advantages reported with other attention tasks and with memory tasks.

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“…We used 240 images of living and non-living objects (120 each) from Moreno-Martínez & Montoro (2012). Half of them appeared only in the recognition memory task, as the “new” stimuli, and the other half appeared first in the task-switching procedure, and then again in the recognition memory task as “old” stimuli.…”

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Distractor-relevance determines whether task-switching enhances or impairs distractor memory.

Chiu¹,

Egner²

2016

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Richter & Yeung (2012) recently documented a novel task-switching effect, a switch-induced reduction in “memory selectivity,” characterized by relatively enhanced memory for distractor stimuli and impaired memory for target stimuli encountered on switch trials compared to repeat trials. One interpretation of this finding argues that task-switching involves opening a “gate” to working memory, which promotes updating of the task-set, but at the same time allows for increased distraction from task-irrelevant information. However, in that study, the distractor category on a switch trial also represented the task-relevant target category from the previous trial. Thus, distractors were only intermittently task-irrelevant, such that switch-enhanced distractor memory could alternatively be due to remnant attention to the previously relevant stimuli, or “task-set inertia.” Here we adjudicated between the open-gate and the task-set inertia accounts of switch-enhanced distractor memory by assessing incidental memory for distractors that were either intermittently or always task-irrelevant. While we replicated switch-enhanced distractor memory in the intermittently-irrelevant distractor condition, this effect was reversed in the always-irrelevant distractor condition. These results speak against the open-gate account, and instead indicate that switch-enhanced distractor memory arises from task-set inertia, and will thus not be observed for truly task-relevant stimuli presented during switching.

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An Ecological Alternative to Snodgrass & Vanderwart: 360 High Quality Colour Images with Norms for Seven Psycholinguistic Variables

Cited by 172 publications

References 62 publications

Neural evidence for phonologically based language production deficits in older adults: An fMRI investigation of age‐related differences in picture‐word interference

Neural evidence for phonologically based language production deficits in older adults: An fMRI investigation of age‐related differences in picture‐word interference

Animacy increases second target reporting in a rapid serial visual presentation task

Distractor-relevance determines whether task-switching enhances or impairs distractor memory.

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