NICI > Publications > 2001 > Priming effects from phonologically related distractors in picture word interference
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Reference
Jescheniak, J.D., & Schriefers, H.J. (2001). Priming effects from phonologically related distractors in picture word interference. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54A (2), 371-382.
Abstract
In the cross-modal picture-word interference task, distractors phonologically related to a to-benamed picture facilitate the naming response as compared to unrelated distractors. Our experiment shows that this phonological priming effect can be obtained with as early an SOA as-300 ms. The experiment also demonstrates that this priming effect cannot be attributed to strategic behaviour of the participants as opposed to automatic preactivation processes in the lexical-conceptual system. The implications for studies using the picture-word interference task as a tool for investigating lexicalization processes in speech production are discussed.