How word comprehension exposures facilitate later spoken production: implications for lexical processing and repetition priming
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Both comprehension and production exposures to words facilitate spoken production of the same words in picture-naming tasks performed several minutes later. Three experiments examined the mechanisms by which different types of comprehension exposures to words facilitate spoken production. Both overt and silent reading and listening tasks elicited substantial priming in picture naming at 10-minute but not 1-week retention intervals. Relative to silent conditions, encoding conditions that involved speaking the target word overtly elicited stronger priming effects in both RT and accuracy and larger frequency effects in RT. Frequency effects were not reliable in accuracy priming or silent-encoding RT priming. Articulatory suppression did not diminish priming effects relative to silent reading/listening, and priming effects did not depend on whether presentations at encoding were visual or auditory. Together, the results indicate that a common modality-general lemma representation is accessed in comprehension and production, that both lemma and phonological retrieval contribute to repetition priming in production, and that phonological retrieval is sensitive to word frequency. These results are consistent with a theory based on transfer-appropriate processing if word comprehension elicits top-down processing or feedback from the concept to the lemma.
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Speech planning can be primed.
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Lexical repetition priming: words are retrieved faster and/or more accurately when they have been recently heard or produced than when this is not the case.
“there is strong evidence from many laboratory studies demonstrating lexical repetition priming, with words being retrieved faster and/or more accurately when they have been recently heard or produced than when this is not the case”
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- Authors
- Tsuboi, N., Francis, W. S., & Jameson, J. T.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at El Paso (US)
- Corresponding author
- Francis, Wendy S.
- ORCID
- Francis, Wendy S.
- Venue
- Memory
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2020-11-17
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 39-58
- ISSN
- 0965-8211 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0686
- OpenAlex
- W3103892181
- Cited by
- 12
- References
- 75
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 0.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Memory (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (BCS-1632283)
- Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences
- 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
- repetition priming, word comprehension, spoken word production, picture naming, lexical processing, phonological retrieval, word frequency effects, transfer-appropriate processing, articulatory suppression, silent reading, listening, retention interval, top-down processing
- MeSH terms
- Auditory Perception, Humans, Semantics, Comprehension, Repetition Priming
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