Selective Attention and Distractor Frequency in Naming Performance: Comment on Dhooge and Hartsuiker (2010)
Selective attention and distractor frequency in naming performance: Comment on Dhooge and Hartsuiker (2010)

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37, 4, (2011), pp. 1032-1038ISSN
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Journal of Experimental Psychology A-Learning, Memory and Cognition
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vol. 37
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iss. 4
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DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 1: Language and Communication; PsycholinguisticsAbstract
E. Dhooge and R. J. Hartsuiker (2010) reported experiments showing that picture naming takes longer with low- than high-frequency distractor words, replicating M. Miozzo and A. Caramazza (2003). In addition, they showed that this distractor-frequency effect disappears when distractors are masked or preexposed. These findings were taken to refute models like WEAVER++ (A. Roelofs, 2003) in which words are selected by competition. However, Dhooge and Hartsuiker do not take into account that according to this model, picture-word interference taps not only into word production but also into attentional processes. Here, the authors indicate that WEAVER++ contains an attentional mechanism that accounts for the distractor-frequency effect (A. Roelofs, 2005). Moreover, the authors demonstrate that the model accounts for the influence of masking and preexposure, and does so in a simpler way than the response exclusion through self-monitoring account advanced by Dhooge and Hartsuiker.
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