Semantic facilitation in category and action naming: Testing the message-congruency account

@article{citeulike:2143525, abstract = {Basic-level picture naming is hampered by the presence of a semantically related context word (compared to an unrelated word), whereas picture categorization is facilitated by a semantically related context word. This reversal of the semantic context effect has been explained by assuming that in categorization tasks, basic-level distractor words (e.g., "dog") do not compete with the selection of the correct category label (e.g., "animal"). In this article, we test an alternative account in terms of a congruency effect ("message-congruency"), which arises at the conceptual level when target (e.g., the picture of a cat) and context (e.g., the word "dog") converge on the same to-be-verbalized concept (e.g., "animal"). In four experiments we observed a substantial message-congruency effect in categorization and action naming. Implications for models of spoken-word production are discussed.}, author = {Kuipers, Jan-Rouke and La Heij, Wido }, citeulike-article-id = {2143525}, doi = {10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.005}, journal = {Journal of Memory and Language}, keywords = {lexical-processing, semantic-organization}, month = {January}, number = {1}, pages = {123--139}, posted-at = {2007-12-19 01:45:32}, priority = {3}, title = {Semantic facilitation in category and action naming: Testing the message-congruency account}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.005}, volume = {58}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2143525 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2143525 TI - Semantic facilitation in category and action naming: Testing the message-congruency account JF - Journal of Memory and Language VL - 58 IS - 1 SP - 123 EP - 139 N2 - Basic-level picture naming is hampered by the presence of a semantically related context word (compared to an unrelated word), whereas picture categorization is facilitated by a semantically related context word. This reversal of the semantic context effect has been explained by assuming that in categorization tasks, basic-level distractor words (e.g., "dog") do not compete with the selection of the correct category label (e.g., "animal"). In this article, we test an alternative account in terms of a congruency effect ("message-congruency"), which arises at the conceptual level when target (e.g., the picture of a cat) and context (e.g., the word "dog") converge on the same to-be-verbalized concept (e.g., "animal"). In four experiments we observed a substantial message-congruency effect in categorization and action naming. Implications for models of spoken-word production are discussed. KW - lexical-processing KW - semantic-organization AU - Kuipers, Jan-Rouke AU - La Heij, Wido PY - 2008/01// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2007.05.005 ER -