Knowing semantic links among resources is the basis of realizing machine intelligence over large-scale resources. Discovering semantic links among resources with limited human interference is a challenge issue. This paper proposes an approach to automatically discovering and predicting semantic links in a document set based on a model of document semantic link network (SLN). The approach has th...

The paper reports empirical and computational research on semantic facilitation and inhibition in the picture-word interference paradigm for different values of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA). The main claim it makes is that purely semantic facilitation effects are conditioned by the degree of picture-word semantic similarity in contrast to inhibition effects for which categorical relatedness ...

In Vieth et al. (2014a), we conducted three experiments to examine semantic relatedness effects in the picture-word interference (PWI) paradigm. According to the lexical selection by competition account of spoken word production, feature overlap between the target picture and related distractor word induces semantic interference. However, this account has been challenged by studies demonstratin...

Picture-word interference refers to the fact that if a picture (i.e., line drawing) is presented centrally with a word superimposed, picture-naming latency is longer than if that same picture is presented alone. This phenomenon, like the Stroop phenomenon, seems to be strongly influenced by the nature of the to-be-ignored word. That is, if the word names a member of the picture's semantic categ...

The cue-based retrieval theory (Lewis et al., 2006) predicts that interference from similar distractors should create difficulty for argument integration, however this hypothesis has only been examined in the written modality. The current study uses the Visual World Paradigm (VWP) to assess its feasibility to study retrieval interference arising from distractors present in a visual display duri...

Graded interference effects were tested in a naming task, in parallel for objects and actions. Participants named either object or action pictures presented in the context of other pictures (blocks) that were either semantically very similar, or somewhat semantically similar or semantically dissimilar. We found that naming latencies for both object and action words were modulated by the semanti...

Two picture-word interference experiments investigated effects from distractor words denoting objects that were visually similar to the target pictures (e.g., umbrella –– palm tree) and effects from distractor words denoting objects that were from the same semantic category (e.g., drum –– violin). In Experiment 1, participants were familiarized with pictures of the target objects and pictures o...