Aix-Marseille Université and C.N.R.S., 13331 Marseille Cedex 3, France.
Mem Cognit. 2010 Jan;38(1):57-66. doi: 10.3758/MC.38.1.57.
We investigated whether the cumulative semantic inhibition effect found by Howard, Nickels, Coltheart, and Cole-Virtue (2006) provides information about semantic representations. By applying more sensitive statistical analyses to the original data set, we found a significant variation in the magnitude of the effect across categories. This variation cannot be explained by the naming speed of each category. In addition, using a subsample of the data, a second cumulative effect arouse for newly defined supracategories, over and above the effect of the original ones. We discuss these findings in terms of the representations that drive lexical access and show that they favor featural or distributed hypotheses.
我们研究了霍华德、尼克尔斯、科尔泰特和科尔-维特（2006）发现的累积语义抑制效应是否提供了关于语义表示的信息。通过对原始数据集应用更敏感的统计分析，我们发现该效应在类别之间的幅度存在显著差异。这种变化不能用每个类别的命名速度来解释。此外，使用数据的一个子样本，在新定义的超类别上产生了第二个累积效应，超过了原始类别的效应。我们根据驱动词汇访问的表示形式讨论了这些发现，并表明它们支持特征或分布式假设。
