Two object-naming experiments explored the influence of extrafoveal preview information and flanker object context on transsaccadic object identification. Both the presence of an extrafoveal preview of the target object and the contextual constraint provided by extrafoveal flanker objects were found to influence the speed of object identification, but the latter effect occurred only when an ext...

In information bases following semantic and object oriented data models logical names are used for the external identi cation of objects Yet the naming schemes em ployed are not natural enough and several problems often arise logical names can be ambiguous excessively long unrelated to or unable to follow the changes of the environment of the named object In natural language similar problems ar...

We examined if external cues such as other agents' actions can influence the choice of language during voluntary and cued object naming in bilinguals in three experiments. Hindi-English bilinguals first saw a cartoon waving at a color patch. They were then asked to either name a picture in the language of their choice (voluntary block) or to name in the instructed language (cued block). The col...

Cross-cultural studies of color naming show that basic terms are universally the most frequently used to name colors. However, such basic color terms are always used in the context of larger linguistic systems when speciŽ c properties of color experience are described. To investigate naturalistic naming behaviors, we examined the use of modiŽ ers in English and Vietnamese color naming using an ...

The role of color in object representation was examined by using a variation of the Stroop paradigm in which observers named the displayed colors of objects or words. In experiment 1, colors of color-diagnostic objects were manipulated to be either typical or atypical of the object (eg a yellow banana versus a purple banana). A Stroop-like effect was obtained, with faster color-naming times for...

Previous studies have investigated orthographic-to-phonological mapping during reading by comparing brain activation for (1) reading words to object naming, or (2) reading pseudowords (e.g., "phume") to words (e.g., "plume"). Here we combined both approaches to provide new insights into the underlying neural mechanisms. In fMRI data from 25 healthy adult readers, we first identified activation ...

Introduction The principle somewhat vaguely formulated by Frege (see above) and called ‘Parmenides Principle’ in a not published manuscript by Pavel Tichý, can be interpreted in two mutually complementing ways. First – the way exploited by Frege and Tichý – an expression cannot be said to speak about something without denoting (naming) this something; an analysis of an expression must not conta...

A distributed connectionist model of semantics is presented in which semantic representations develop under the pressure of learning to mediate between multiple input and output modalities in performing various tasks. The system has a topographic bias on learning that favors short connections, leading to a graded degree of modality-specific functional specialization within semantics. The approa...

Although the left posterior occipitotemporal sulcus (pOTS) has been called a visual word form area, debate persists over the selectivity of this region for reading relative to general nonorthographic visual object processing. We used high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging to study left pOTS responses to combinatorial orthographic and object shape information. Participants perform...