Semantic distance effects on object and action naming.

Full Abstract

Graded interference effects were tested in a naming task, in parallel for objects and actions. Participants named either object or action pictures presented in the context of other pictures (blocks) that were either semantically very similar, or somewhat semantically similar or semantically dissimilar. We found that naming latencies for both object and action words were modulated by the semantic similarity between the exemplars in each block, providing evidence in both domains of graded semantic effects.

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Author/s: Vigliocco, Gabriella (G); Vinson, David P (DP); Damian, Markus F (MF); Levelt, Willem (W);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1, UK. g.vigliocco@ucl.ac.uk

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Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Journal: Cognition (Cognition), published in Netherlands. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Oct; vol 85 (issue 3) : pp B61-9

Dates: Created 2002/08/09; Completed 2002/11/04; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 12169413, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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