Semantic category moderates phonological priming of proper name retrieval during tip-of-the-tongue states

White, Katherine; Abrams, Lise; Frame, Elizabeth A.

doi:10.1080/01690965.2012.658408

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“…For the semantic retrieval deficit, older adults presented a phonological priming effect in same-occupation primes but not in different-occupation primes, in comparison with young adults, suggesting that the magnitude of phonological priming effect for older adults is constrained by semantic contexts. There is evidence showing that the phonological priming of lexical retrieval after TOTs occurrence is constrained by semantic category (White et al, 2013) or grammatical class between primes and target names, and older adults are more sensitive to these modulations of semantic contexts than young ones (Abrams and Rodriguez, 2005;Abrams et al, 2007). We also observed an age-related difference in the phonological priming effect on lexical retrieval during TOTs occurrence, depending on the semantic constrains between primes and target names.…”

Section: Age Difference In Semantic Retrieval Deficitsupporting

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“…In a proper name production (i.e., person's name) study, Cohen and Faulkner (1986) reported that people in a TOT state could retrieve semantic information about target persons such as their occupation or hobbies, but hardly speak out the names. In addition, previous studies using a priming procedure in which a priming word was presented before or after TOTs occurrence found that semantic primes did not reduce TOTs occurrence (Farrell, 2012) or improve TOTs resolution (Cross and Burke, 2004), whereas phonological primes played a pivotal role in reducing TOTs occurrence (Abrams and Rodriguez, 2005;Farrell and Abrams, 2011;Pureza et al, 2013) and enhancing TOTs resolution (Oberle and James, 2013;Pureza et al, 2013;White et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…In addition, semantically related primes exerted an adverse effect on semantic retrieval when TOTs occurred, but this effect was confined to older adults. Studies have reported that semantically related primes decreased TOT resolution rates and even blocked retrieval in older speakers (Abrams and Rodriguez, 2005;Abrams et al, 2007;White et al, 2013). Semantically related primes interfere with targets retrieval if they compete for lexical selection, as evidenced by semantic interference effect (Damian et al, 2001;Zhang et al, 2018).…”

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Aging Effects on Phonological and Semantic Priming in the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Evidence From a Two-Step Approach

2020

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The mechanism underlying the age difference in spoken word production remains controversial. We used a two-step approach proposed by Gollan and Brown (2006) to investigate the semantic and phonological retrieval deficits when tip-of-the-tongue occurs in young and older adults. Importantly, we controlled the inhibition ability in both older and young groups. In experiment 1 with a people pictures naming task, older adults produced more TOTs than young adults, and they suffered from phonological retrieval deficit rather than semantic retrieval deficit in speaking. In experiment 2 with a priming paradigm, participants were presented semantically related or phonologically related names before target pictures, which formed semantic or phonological priming conditions for lexical access. Compared with young adults, older adults showed a greater effect of phonological priming on decreasing TOTs occurrence. For semantic retrieval deficit, older adults exhibited a smaller phonological facilitation effect and a larger semantic interference effect than young adults. For phonological retrieval deficit, older adults presented a larger phonological facilitation effect in the first-name related priming condition than the first-syllable related priming condition, whereas young adults showed similar facilitation effects between the two phonological priming conditions. Our findings provide consistent evidence for the transmission deficit hypothesis, and highlight that aging affects bidirectional connections between semantic and phonological nodes in speech production.

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Aging Effects on Phonological and Semantic Priming in the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Evidence From a Two-Step Approach

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“…Our data instead suggest that, similar to studies of TOT states and slips of the tongue, misnaming of highly familiar individuals are influenced by both semantic and phonological factors. Potential substitutions for the correct name may be more likely to be used if they share semantic or phonetic properties with the correct name (Dell & Reich, 1981;White, Abrams, & Frame, 2013), which suggests that misnamings can occur at different stages of speech production. A comparison of the effect sizes for semantic similarity and phonetic similarity from the chisquare analysis revealed a larger effect of semantic group that was consistent across all four studies, even though sample characteristics and participant perspective (misnamer or misnamed) varied.…”

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All my children: The roles of semantic category and phonetic similarity in the misnaming of familiar individuals

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Despite knowing a familiar individual (such as a daughter) well, anecdotal evidence suggests that naming errors can occur among very familiar individuals. Here, we investigate the conditions surrounding these types of errors, or misnamings, in which a person (the misnamer) incorrectly calls a familiar individual (the misnamed) by someone else's name (the named). Across 5 studies including over 1,700 participants, we investigated the prevalence of the phenomenon of misnaming, identified factors underlying why it may occur, and tested potential mechanisms. We included undergraduates and MTurk workers and asked questions of both the misnamed and the misnamer. We find that familiar individuals are often misnamed with the name of another member of the same semantic category; family members are misnamed with another family member's name and friends are misnamed with another friend's name. Phonetic similarity between names also leads to misnamings; however, the size of this effect was smaller than that of the semantic category effect. Overall, the misnaming of familiar individuals is driven by the relationship between the misnamer, misnamed, and named; phonetic similarity between the incorrect name used by the misnamer and the correct name also plays a role in misnaming.

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“…Age-related increases in ToT experiences (hereafter ToTs) are not related to increased vocabulary knowledge throughout adulthood (Facal et al, 2012;Salthouse and Mendell, 2013;Shafto et al, 2017). Consistent evidence supports the hypothesis that the higher frequency of ToTs in older adults is caused by a decline in transmission of the activation from semantic to phonological representations (Burke et al, 1991;James and Burke, 2000;Shafto et al, 2007;Juncos-Rabadán et al, 2010;White et al, 2013). According to this hypothesis, ToTs occur when the activated semantic representation of a word fails to spread the necessary activation to its corresponding phonological representation, making lexical access impossible.…”

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Longitudinal Patterns of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon in People With Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Mild Cognitive Impairment

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Background: The Tip-of-the-Tongue (ToTs) state is considered a universal phenomenon and is a frequent cognitive complaint in old age. Previous cross-sectional studies have found that ToT measures successfully discriminate between cognitively unimpaired adults and adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI). The aim of this study was to identify longitudinal patterns of ToTs in individuals with subjective complaints and with MCI regarding progress of their cognitive status. Method: The study included 193 participants with subjective cognitive complaints (SCC) and 56 participants with MCI who completed a baseline and two followup assessments, with an interval of about 18 months between each assessment. Participants were classified into three groups by considering cognitive stability or deterioration from the baseline diagnosis: SCC-stable, MCI-stable and MCI-worsened. Participants performed a ToT task involving recognition and naming of famous people depicted in 50 photographs. Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMM) were used to model longitudinal changes in familiarity, feeling of knowing, semantic access, phonological access and verbal fluency. Results: Phonological access differentiated MCI patients, stable and worsened, from adults with SCCs at all evaluation times. Phonological access declined over time in the three groups, without significant interactions between groups and time. Discussion: This study provides the first longitudinal evidence of differences in ToT measures for adults with MCI. The findings indicate that phonological access measures successfully differentiated between the diagnostic groups. However, slopes remain irrespective of the diagnostic group and progression toward more advance stages of cognitive impairment.

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Semantic category moderates phonological priming of proper name retrieval during tip-of-the-tongue states

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

Aging Effects on Phonological and Semantic Priming in the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Evidence From a Two-Step Approach

Aging Effects on Phonological and Semantic Priming in the Tip-of-the-Tongue: Evidence From a Two-Step Approach

All my children: The roles of semantic category and phonetic similarity in the misnaming of familiar individuals

Longitudinal Patterns of the Tip-of-the-Tongue Phenomenon in People With Subjective Cognitive Complaints and Mild Cognitive Impairment

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