In three experiments, the nature of the representations involved in written picture naming and the time course of their activation were investigated. French participants had to produce picture names while hearing distractors. In Experiment 1, distractors semantically related to the picture names yielded a semantic interference effect when a stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) of--150 msec, but not ...

Two experiments examined the effects of plane rotation on the recognition of briefly displayed pictures of familiar objects, using a picture-word verification task. Mirroring the results of earlier picture naming studies (Jolicoeur, 1985; Jolicoeur & Milliken, 1989), plane rotation away from a canonical upright orientation reduced the efficiency of recognition, although in contrast to the resul...

At the beginning and end of the school year, parents completed an adaptation of the home literacy questionnaire (Sénéchal, LeFevre, Hudson, & Lawson, 1996) and children were evaluated across a battery of early literacy measures: (1) Alphabet subtest of the Test of Early Reading Ability, Third Edition (TERA-3; Reid, Hresko, & Hammill, 2001); (2) Clay’s (1985) Concepts about Print Scale (CAP); (3...

Introduction: Word retrieval problems are among the limitations observed in children with specific language impairment during the initial schooling years. These restrictions are predictive of reading problems and poor performance at school. Additionally, studies on lexical access in Persian speaking children are scarce. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and compare naming accuracy and ...

This fMRI study explores how nonlinguistic cues modulate lexical activation in the bilingual brain. We examined the influence of face race on bilingual language production in a picture-naming paradigm. Chinese-English bilinguals were presented with pictures of objects and images of faces (Asian or Caucasian). Participants named the picture in their first or second language (Chinese or English) ...

Aphasic patients occasionally manifest a dissociated naming ability between objects and actions: this phenomenon has been interpreted as evidence of a separate organization for nouns and verbs in the mental lexicon. Nevertheless Bird et al. [Bird, H., Howard, D., Franklin, S. (2000). Why is a verb like an inanimate object? Grammatical category and semantic category deficits. BrainandLanguage, 7...

Number and picture rapid automatized naming (RAN) tests are useful sideline diagnostic tools. The main outcome measure of these RAN is the completion time, which prolonged with a concussion, yet yields no information about eye movement behavior. We investigated movements during digitized Mobile Universal Lexicon Evaluation System (MULES) test naming. A total 23 participants history concussion 5...

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...