“…Across theoretical frameworks, one of the core principle of how word processing works is the graded, parallel activation of non-target words because they are either related in meaning (e.g., Rogers and McClelland, 2004) or similar in form (e.g., Mulatti et al, 2012Mulatti et al, , 2006 to the target stimulus. If multiple, non-target representations are simultaneously activated, then, in order to prevent selection errors, there ought to be a mechanism that impedes the processing of these multiple representations and favours the processing of the target word.…”