Vitkovitch Melanie, Cooper-Pye Elisa, Leadbetter Antony G
School of Psychology, University of East London, London, England.
Mem Cognit. 2006 Apr;34(3):715-25. doi: 10.3758/bf03193590.
Two naming experiments are reported that replicated previous findings of semantic interference as a result of naming related word or picture primes three trials before picture targets. We also examined whether semantic interference occurred when the materials were reversed and picture or word primes were named before word targets. The interest in semantic interference during word naming followed a suggestion made by Humphreys, Lloyd-Jones, and Fias (1995) that word naming, like picture naming, may be reliant on a semantic route to name retrieval when the two stimuli are mixed. In contrast to their findings, we found no evidence for semantic interference during target word naming; in fact, we found facilitation from related picture primes. No priming was found for the related word prime and word target condition. The data allow us to rule out the possibility that word naming is reliant on a semantic route when mixed with pictures in this priming paradigm and to conclude that there is no clear evidence of semantic activation during word naming. We also conclude, in line with other research, that word naming and picture naming involve different processes.
本文报告了两项命名实验，这些实验重复了之前的研究结果：在图片目标出现前三轮对相关单词或图片启动项进行命名会导致语义干扰。我们还研究了将材料颠倒，在单词目标之前对图片或单词启动项进行命名时，是否会出现语义干扰。对单词命名过程中语义干扰的研究兴趣源于汉弗莱斯、劳埃德-琼斯和菲亚斯（1995）的一项建议，即当两种刺激混合时，单词命名与图片命名一样，可能依赖于一条语义路径来进行命名检索。与他们的研究结果相反，我们发现在目标单词命名过程中没有语义干扰的证据；事实上，我们发现相关图片启动项起到了促进作用。在相关单词启动项和单词目标条件下未发现启动效应。这些数据使我们能够排除在这种启动范式中单词与图片混合时单词命名依赖于语义路径的可能性，并得出结论：在单词命名过程中没有明确的语义激活证据。我们还与其他研究一致得出结论，单词命名和图片命名涉及不同的过程。
