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Automatic and strategic processes in picture naming.

C L McEvoy1

  • 1Department of Aging and Mental Health, University of South Florida, Tampa 33612.

Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition
|October 1, 1988
PubMed
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Priming effects in language processing depend on task context. Inhibitory effects emerge when identical primes are present, overriding facilitation from related words in picture-naming tasks.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Experimental Psychology

Background:

  • Priming stimuli typically facilitate responses to subsequent targets.
  • However, inhibitory effects can arise from related primes, particularly when identical primes appear in the sequence.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how the presence of identical primes affects priming effects in a picture-naming task.
  • To examine the role of prime-target relation strength in the presence or absence of identical primes.

Main Methods:

  • A picture-naming task was employed, manipulating the strength of the relationship between prime words and target pictures.
  • The presence or absence of identical primes within the testing sequence was systematically varied.

Main Results:

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  • Related primes facilitated picture naming when identical primes were absent, but this facilitation was abolished when identical primes were present.
  • The strength of the prime-target relation did not influence naming facilitation, irrespective of identical prime presence.
  • A second experiment confirmed the strength effect and its independence from identical prime presence.

Conclusions:

  • Inhibitory effects in priming tasks may stem from a comparison strategy that overrides automatic activation of related information.
  • The interplay between prime-target relatedness, identical prime presence, and strategic processing influences language production outcomes.