Can machines classify picture naming errors? Evidence from Dell’s model

Syntactic Flexibility in the Noun: Evidence from Picture Naming

Does syntactic information affect the production of bare nouns? Research into this issue has explored word-specific features (e.g., gender). However, word-independent syntactic distributions may also play a role. For example, studies of word recognition have uncovered strong effects of the diversity of a word's syntactic distribution – its syntactic flexibility – on response times in the lexica...

Cascaded processing in written naming: Evidence from the picture–picture interference paradigm

Electrophysiological evidence that inhibition supports lexical selection in picture naming.

We investigated the neural basis of inhibitory control during lexical selection. Participants overtly named pictures while response times (RTs) and event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded. The difficulty of lexical selection was manipulated by using object and action pictures with high name agreement (few response candidates) versus low name agreement (many response candidates). To ...

Recognising, Knowing and Naming: Can Object Picture Processing Models Accommodate Non-Picture Visuals?

This paper provides an overview of information processing accounts of pictures of objects and of non-picture visuals (NPVs) such as graphs and diagrams, including theories of graph comprehension. Compared to the study of objects, there appear to be rather few information processing studies of NPVs. An NPV corpus was developed and items were used as visual stimuli in four cognitive tasks. The ta...

Grey and white matter correlates of picture naming: evidence from a voxel-based lesion analysis of the Boston Naming Test.

A number of recent studies utilizing both functional neuroimaging and lesion analysis techniques in neurologic patients have produced conflicting results with respect to the neural correlates of picture naming. Picture naming involves a number of cognitive processes, from visual perception/recognition to lexical-semantic retrieval to articulation. This middle process, the ability to retrieve a ...