Distractor strength and selective attention in picture-naming performance.
Whereas it has long been assumed that competition plays a role in lexical selection in word production (e.g., Levelt, Roelofs, & Meyer, ), recently Finkbeiner and Caramazza () argued against the competition assumption on the basis of their observation that visible distractors yield semantic interfer...
| Published in: | Memory & Cognition Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 614 - 628 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2012
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