ERP Evidence for Ultra-Fast Semantic Processing in the Picture–Word Interference Paradigm

ERP Evidence for Ultra-Fast Semantic Processing in the Picture–Word Interference Paradigm

We used the event-related potential (ERP) approach combined with a subtraction technique to explore the timecourse of activation of semantic and phonological representations in the picture-word interference paradigm. Subjects were exposed to to-be-named pictures superimposed on to-be-ignored semantically related, phonologically related, or unrelated words, and distinct ERP waveforms were genera...

ERP abnormalities during semantic processing in schizophrenia.

To examine the neurophysiological and cognitive characteristics of thought disturbance in schizophrenic patients, we examined the amplitude, latency, and topography of a specific event-related brain potential (ERP), the N400, which is elicited by semantically incongruent words and phrases. Twelve chronic schizophrenic patients and twelve age-matched control subjects read sentences presented vis...

Lexical interference effects in sentence processing: evidence from the visual world paradigm and self-organizing models.

Psycholinguistic research spanning a number of decades has produced diverging results with regard to the nature of constraint integration in online sentence processing. For example, evidence that language users anticipatorily fixate likely upcoming referents in advance of evidence in the speech signal supports rapid context integration. By contrast, evidence that language users activate represe...

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

On the categorical nature of the semantic interference effect in the picture-word interference paradigm.

Two picture-word interference experiments are reported in which the boundaries of the semantic interference effect are explored. In both experiments, participants named pictures (e.g., a picture of a car) that appeared with superimposed word distractors. Distractor words from the same semantic category as the word for the picture (e.g., CAR) produced semantic interference, whereas semantically ...