Do Part–Whole Relations Produce Facilitation in the Picture–Word Interference Task?

Sailor, Kevin M.; Brooks, Patricia J.

doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.870589

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“…Thus, whereas the responseexclusion hypothesis meets with theoretical and empirical difficulty (e.g., Aristei and Abdel Rahman, 2013;Abdel Rahman and Aristei, 2010;Abdel Rahman and Melinger, 2009;Hantsch and Mädebach, 2013;La Heij, Kuipers, and Starreveld, 2006;Mädebach, Oppermann, Hantsch, Curda, and Jescheniak, 2011;Coltheart, 2012, 2014;Piai et al, 2011Roelofs et al, 2011Sailor and Brooks, 2014;Starreveld, La Heij, and Verdonschot, 2013), the competition hypothesis remains a viable account of word selection in word production. …”

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Aspects of competition in word production: Reply to Mahon and Navarrete

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“…Muehlhaus et al (2013) selected part-whole stimuli that were strong associates using cue-target free association norms. Consistent with this explanation, Sailor and Brooks (2014) found that part-distractors produced facilitation only when they were associated with the target. When not associated with the target, part-distractors produced an interference effect compared to parts unrelated to the target object (Experiments 1 & 3).…”

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“…This manipulation allows for an investigation of the role of feature distinctiveness with respect to reports of semantic facilitation with object-part relations in PWI (Costa, et al, 2005;Muehlhaus et al, 2013;Sailor & Brooks, 2014) Finally, Chapter 5 summarises the evidence from Chapters 2, 3 and 4, with respect to the alternative accounts of speech production that have been proposed based on the empirical challenges to the lexical selection by competition account (Mahon, et al, 2007;). …”

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“…This might explain why some studies observed facilitation with part-whole distractor-target pairings while others observed interference (e.g., Sailor & Brooks, 2014). Thus, feature distinctiveness might be an important factor influencing the polarity of semantic effects in PWI paradigms.…”

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“…Experiments 8 and 9 investigated the role of feature distinctiveness with respect to part-whole distractor-target relations (e.g., a hump is a distinguishing part of a CAMEL, whereas knee is not, vs. an unrelated part such as plug). In Experiments 6, 8 and 9, targets and distractors were constructed so as to have minimal associative relations (e.g., Sailor & Brooks, 2014).…”

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The roles of conceptual feature overlap and distinctiveness during lexical access in spoken word production

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School of Psychology 2To produce a spoken word we must first retrieve it from memory in a process termed lexical selection. Lexical selection by competition theory proposes that retrieval is a process in which multiple word candidates are activated and compete for selection. While this theory has been prominent for several decades, it has been challenged in recent years by empirical demonstrations of semantic context effects in naming paradigms that are difficult to reconcile with a competitive lexical selection mechanism. These findings have led to novel theoretical accounts being formulated. This dissertation investigates how the structural organization of conceptual information influences spoken word production according to the different theoretical accounts. In simple terms, how are object concepts that we express everyday organized with respect to their constituent features, and how do these features determine semantic context effects in naming paradigms? Using picture-word interference and blocked cyclic paradigms in conjunction with functional neuroimaging, I investigated the potentially different roles that conceptual feature overlap and feature distinctiveness have in influencing semantic context effects in naming. Over three chapters comprising nine experiments, I show recent empirical findings used to challenge the competitive lexical selection account are not replicable. Further, I show that increasing conceptual feature overlap is primarily responsible for slowing naming latencies in semantic contexts. I conclude that a competitive account remains the most viable explanation of lexical selection in speech production. 3 Declaration by authorThis thesis is composed of my original work, and contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference has been made in the text. I have clearly stated the contribution by others to jointly-authored works that I have included in my thesis.I have clearly stated the contribution of others to my thesis as a whole, including statistical assistance, survey design, data analysis, significant technical procedures, professional editorial advice, and any other original research work used or reported in my thesis. The content of my thesis is the result of work I have carried out since the commencement of my research higher degree candidature and does not include a substantial part of work that has been submitted to qualify for the award of any other degree or diploma in any university or other tertiary institution. I have clearly stated which parts of my thesis, if any, have been submitted to qualify for another award.I acknowledge that an electronic copy of my thesis must be lodged with the University Library and, subject to the policy and procedures of The University of Queensland, the thesis be made available for research and study in accordance with the Copyright Act 1968 unless a period of embargo has been approved by the Dean of the Graduate School.I acknowledge that copyright of all material contained in my thesis resides w...

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In our interactions with people and objects in the world around us, as well as in communicating our thoughts, we rely on the use of conceptual knowledge stored in long-term memory. From a frame-theoretic point of view, a concept is represented by a central node and recursive attribute-value structures further specifying the concept. The present study explores whether and how the activation of an attribute within a frame might influence access to the concept's name in language production, focussing on the colour attribute. Colour has been shown to contribute to object recognition, naming, and memory retrieval, and there is evidence that colour plays a different role in naming objects that have a typical colour (high colour-diagnostic objects such as tomatoes) than in naming objects without a typical colour (low colour-diagnostic objects such as bicycles). We report two behavioural experiments designed to reveal potential effects of the activation of an object's typical colour on naming the object in a picture-word interference paradigm. This paradigm was used to investigate whether naming is facilitated when typical colours are presented alongside the to-be-named picture (e.g., the word "red" superimposed on the picture of a tomato), compared to atypical colours (such as "brown"), unrelated adjectives (such as "fast"), or random letter strings. To further explore the time course of these potential effects, the words were presented at different time points relative to the to-be-named picture (Exp. 1: −400 ms, Exp. 2: −200 ms, 0 ms, and + 200 ms). By including both high and low colour-diagnostic objects, it was possible to explore whether the activation of a colour differentially affects naming of objects that have a strong association with a typical colour. The results showed that (pre-)activation of the appropriate colour attribute facilitated naming compared to an inappropriate colour. This was only the case for objects closely connected with a typical colour. Consequences of these findings for frame-theoretic accounts of conceptual representation are discussed.

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Do Part–Whole Relations Produce Facilitation in the Picture–Word Interference Task?

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Aspects of competition in word production: Reply to Mahon and Navarrete

Aspects of competition in word production: Reply to Mahon and Navarrete

The roles of conceptual feature overlap and distinctiveness during lexical access in spoken word production

The time course of colour congruency effects in picture naming

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