Semantic distance effects on object and action naming
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Published on: February 19, 2018
Gabriella Vigliocco1, David P Vinson, Markus F Damian
1Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1, UK. g.vigliocco@ucl.ac.uk
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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