The present study examined the relation between nonselective inhibition and selective inhibition in picture naming performance. Nonselective inhibition refers to the ability to suppress any unwanted response, whereas selective inhibition refers to the ability to suppress specific competing responses. The degree of competition in picture naming was manipulated by presenting targets along with di...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the hemispheric contributions to prosody recognitions and interference effects of semantic processing on prosody for stroke patients by using the Korean language. METHODS Ten right hemisphere damaged patients (RHD), nine left hemisphere damaged patients (LHD), and eleven healthy controls (HC) participated. In pure prosody recognition task, four semantically neutral se...

Why do we lose, or have trouble accessing, an idea that was in the focus of attention only a moment ago, especially in the absence of any apparent distraction? We tested the hypothesis that accessing a single item that is already active is affected by implicit interference (interference of which we have little or no awareness). We presented masked words that were semantically related or unrelat...

Evidence from 3 experiments reveals interference effects from structural relationships that are inconsistent with any grammatical parse of the perceived input. Processing disruption was observed when items occurring between a head and a dependent overlapped with either (or both) syntactic or semantic features of the dependent. Effects of syntactic interference occur in the earliest online measu...

In 5 picture-word interference experiments the activation of word class information was investigated. The first experiment, in which subjects used bare nouns to describe the pictures, failed to reveal any interference effect of noun distractor words as opposed to closed-class distractor words. In the next 4 experiments the pictures were named by using a definite determiner and the noun completi...

The role of interference as a primary determinant of forgetting in memory has long been accepted, however its role as a contributor to poor comprehension is just beginning to be understood. The current paper reports two studies, in which speed-accuracy tradeoff and eye-tracking methodologies were used with the same materials to provide converging evidence for the role of syntactic and semantic ...

Programming languages and environments that support AOP lack expressive power to manage the interference between components and aspects. We illustrate this problem in an example and identify the needed expressive power. We propose aspect integration contracts to fill the gap. These contracts specify the permitted interference between an aspect and a base component. We discuss the impact of our ...

Parallel changes are becoming increasingly prevalent in the development of large scale software system. To further study the relationship between parallel changes and faults, we have designed and implemented an algorithm to detect semantic interference between parallel changes. To evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of this analyzer, we designed an exploratory case study in the context of...

Citation: Python G, Fargier R and Laganaro M (2018) When Wine and Apple Both Help the Production of Grapes: ERP Evidence for Post-lexical Semantic Facilitation in Picture Naming. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 12:136. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00136 Background: Producing a word in referential naming requires to select the right word in our mental lexicon among co-activated semantically related words. The ...

One question in word production is how the presence of a semantically related word affects the naming process. It has been suggested that semantic effects in picture-word interference tasks are a net result of both inhibitory and facilitatory processes that take place at different processing levels. Finkbeiner and Caramazza (2006) argued that masking distractor words removes the inhibitory comp...