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Central bottleneck influences on the processing stages of word production.

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Ferreira, Victor S., Pashler, Harold·2002·Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition

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Does producing a word slow performance of a concurrent, unrelated task? In 2 experiments, 108 participants named pictures and discriminated tones. In Experiment 1, pictures were named after cloze sentences; the durations of the word-production stages of lemma and phonological word-form selection were manipulated with high- and low-constraint cloze sentences and high- and low-frequency-name pictures, respectively. In Experiment 2, pictures were presented with simultaneous distractor words; the durations of lemma and phoneme selection were manipulated with conceptually and phonologically related distractors. All manipulations, except the phoneme-selection manipulation, delayed tone-discrimination responses as much as picture-naming responses. These results suggest that early word-production stages--lemma and phonological word-form selection--are subject to a central processing bottleneck, whereas the later stage--phoneme selection--is not.

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Authors
Ferreira, V. S., & Pashler, H.
Affiliations
University of California San Diego (US)
Venue
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Published
2002
Volume
28
Issue
6
Pages
1187-1199
ISSN
  • 0278-7393 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1285
OpenAlex
W2172070061
Cited by
246
References
70
Citations by year
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FWCI
1.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH64733, R01MH064733, R01 MH45584, R01MH045584)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Keywords
word production, central bottleneck, processing stages, picture naming, tone discrimination, lemma selection, phoneme selection, distractor interference, dual-task performance
MeSH terms
Adult, Attention, Concept Formation, Female, Humans, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Phonetics, Pitch Discrimination, Reaction Time, Reading, Mental Recall, Semantics, Speech Production Measurement, Verbal Behavior

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