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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Speech Production

Background:

  • The cascade model of lexical access suggests that phonological information is activated even for to-be-ignored stimuli during picture naming.
  • Morsella and Miozzo (2002) provided evidence supporting this model using context pictures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To replicate and extend Morsella and Miozzo's findings in German.
  • To investigate the automatic activation of lexical-phonological codes during picture naming.

Main Methods:

  • Participants named target pictures in German.
  • Context stimuli included phonologically related pictures, context words (picture names), and identity pictures.
  • Priming effects were measured by changes in naming latency.

Main Results:

  • Phonologically related context pictures did not facilitate target picture naming.
  • Context words and identity pictures reliably facilitated naming.
  • The findings contradict the automatic activation of phonological codes from context pictures.

Conclusions:

  • The generality of the cascade model's claim regarding automatic phonological activation from context pictures is questioned.
  • Picture perception in naming tasks may not always lead to automatic lexical-phonological code activation.
  • Alternative models of lexical access may be necessary to explain speech production.