Distributional properties of semantic interference in picture naming
- Studies of word production often make use of picture-naming tasks, including the picture-word-interference task. In this task, participants name pictures with superimposed distractor words. They typically need more time to name pictures when the distractor word is semantically related to the picture than when it is unrelated (the semantic interference effect). The present study examines the distributional properties of this effect in a series of Bayesian meta-analyses. Meta-analytic estimates of the semantic interference effect first show that the effect is present throughout the reaction time distribution and that it increases throughout the distribution. Second, we find a correlation between a participant's mean semantic interference effect and the change in the effect in the tail of the reaction time distribution, which has been argued to reflect the involvement of selective inhibition in the naming task. Finally, we show with simulated data that this correlation emerges even when no inhibition is used to generate the data, whichStudies of word production often make use of picture-naming tasks, including the picture-word-interference task. In this task, participants name pictures with superimposed distractor words. They typically need more time to name pictures when the distractor word is semantically related to the picture than when it is unrelated (the semantic interference effect). The present study examines the distributional properties of this effect in a series of Bayesian meta-analyses. Meta-analytic estimates of the semantic interference effect first show that the effect is present throughout the reaction time distribution and that it increases throughout the distribution. Second, we find a correlation between a participant's mean semantic interference effect and the change in the effect in the tail of the reaction time distribution, which has been argued to reflect the involvement of selective inhibition in the naming task. Finally, we show with simulated data that this correlation emerges even when no inhibition is used to generate the data, which suggests that inhibition is not needed to explain this relationship.…
Author details: | Pamela FuhrmeisterORCiD, Audrey Damaris Bürki-FoschiniORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-02016-6 |
ISSN: | 1069-9384 |
ISSN: | 1531-5320 |
Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34738184 |
Title of parent work (English): | Psychonomic bulletin & review : a journal of the Psychonomic Society |
Subtitle (English): | Bayesian meta-analyses |
Publisher: | Springer |
Place of publishing: | New York |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of first publication: | 2021/11/04 |
Publication year: | 2022 |
Release date: | 2022/08/31 |
Tag: | Delta plot analyses; Individual differences; Picture-word-interference task; Selective; Semantic interference effect; inhibition |
Volume: | 29 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 13 |
First page: | 635 |
Last Page: | 647 |
Funding institution: | Projekt DEAL |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit | |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
License (German): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |