School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia.
NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Aphasia Recovery and Rehabilitation, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Q J Exp Psychol (Hove). 2023 Sep;76(9):1990-2000. doi: 10.1177/17470218221137007. Epub 2022 Nov 21.
Semantic context effects are well established using both words and pictures as stimuli. One such effect, semantic interference, is observed in naming latencies when a categorically related distractor word or picture is presented together with a target picture (e.g., dog-LION). Recently, this effect has also been shown to occur when an environmental sound (e.g., a dog ) is presented as an auditory distractor during picture naming and when a distractor picture is presented with a target sound for naming. The purpose of the current study was twofold: (1) to replicate the semantic interference effect in the () paradigm and (2) determine whether a semantic interference effect is also observable when distractor words are presented with environmental sounds as target auditory objects for naming, using a novel () paradigm. We replicated the semantic interference effect in Experiment 1 with environmental sound distractors. Experiment 2 demonstrated significant semantic interference during an SWI paradigm for the first time. We discuss the implications of these results for our understanding of the origin and locus of the semantic interference effect according to current theories of lexical selection.
语义语境效应在使用单词和图片作为刺激物时得到了很好的证实。在命名时，当一个类别相关的干扰词或图片与目标图片（例如，狗-狮子）一起呈现时，就会观察到这种语义干扰效应。最近，当在命名图片时，一个环境声音（例如，狗的声音）作为听觉干扰物呈现，或者当一个干扰图片与目标声音一起呈现以进行命名时，也会出现这种干扰效应。本研究的目的有两个：（1）在 () 范式中复制语义干扰效应，（2）使用一种新的 () 范式，确定当干扰词与环境声音一起呈现作为目标听觉对象进行命名时，是否也可以观察到语义干扰效应。在实验 1 中，我们使用环境声音干扰物复制了语义干扰效应。实验 2 首次证明了在 SWI 范式中存在显著的语义干扰效应。根据当前词汇选择理论，我们讨论了这些结果对我们理解语义干扰效应的起源和位置的影响。
