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ERIC Number: EJ802606
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-Jul
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0278-7393
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Parallel Processing of Objects in a Naming Task
Meyer, Antje S.; Ouellet, Marc; Hacker, Christine
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, v34 n4 p982-987 Jul 2008
The authors investigated whether speakers who named several objects processed them sequentially or in parallel. Speakers named object triplets, arranged in a triangle, in the order left, right, and bottom object. The left object was easy or difficult to identify and name. During the saccade from the left to the right object, the right object shown at trial onset (the interloper) was replaced by a new object (the target), which the speakers named. Interloper and target were identical or unrelated objects, or they were conceptually unrelated objects with the same name (e.g., "bat" [animal] and [baseball] "bat"). The mean duration of the gazes to the target was shorter when interloper and target were identical or had the same name than when they were unrelated. The facilitatory effects of identical and homophonous interlopers were significantly larger when the left object was easy to process than when it was difficult to process. This interaction demonstrates that the speakers processed the left and right objects in parallel. (Contains 1 figure, 1 table, and 2 footnotes.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom
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