Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level.
When naming a sequence of pictures of the same semantic category (e.g., furniture), response latencies systematically increase with each named category member. This cumulative semantic interference effect has become a popular tool to investigate the cognitive architecture of language production. How...
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| author | Anna-Lisa Döring Rasha Abdel Rahman Pienie Zwitserlood Antje Lorenz |
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| description | When naming a sequence of pictures of the same semantic category (e.g., furniture), response latencies systematically increase with each named category member. This cumulative semantic interference effect has become a popular tool to investigate the cognitive architecture of language production. However, not all processes underlying the effect itself are fully understood, including the question where the effect originates from. While some researchers assume the interface of the conceptual and lexical level as its origin, others suggest the conceptual-semantic level. The latter assumption follows from the observation that cumulative effects, namely cumulative facilitation, can also be observed in purely conceptual-semantic tasks. Another unanswered question is whether cumulative interference is affected by the morphological complexity of the experimental targets. In two experiments with the same participants and the same material, we investigated both of these issues. Experiment 1, a continuous picture naming task, investigated whether morphologically complex nouns (e.g., kitchen table) elicit identical levels of cumulative interference to morphologically simple nouns (e.g., table). Our results show this to be the case, indicating that cumulative interference is unaffected by lexical information such as morphological complexity. In Experiment 2, participants classified the same target objects as either man-made or natural. As expected, we observed cumulative facilitation. A separate analysis showed that this facilitation effect can be predicted by the individuals' effect sizes of cumulative interference, suggesting a strong functional link between the two effects. Our results thus point to a conceptual-semantic origin of cumulative semantic interference. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-796f6bb2d2114e37abdf27d903bca5332025-08-20T03:16:35ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032022-01-01176e026891510.1371/journal.pone.0268915Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level.Anna-Lisa DöringRasha Abdel RahmanPienie ZwitserloodAntje LorenzWhen naming a sequence of pictures of the same semantic category (e.g., furniture), response latencies systematically increase with each named category member. This cumulative semantic interference effect has become a popular tool to investigate the cognitive architecture of language production. However, not all processes underlying the effect itself are fully understood, including the question where the effect originates from. While some researchers assume the interface of the conceptual and lexical level as its origin, others suggest the conceptual-semantic level. The latter assumption follows from the observation that cumulative effects, namely cumulative facilitation, can also be observed in purely conceptual-semantic tasks. Another unanswered question is whether cumulative interference is affected by the morphological complexity of the experimental targets. In two experiments with the same participants and the same material, we investigated both of these issues. Experiment 1, a continuous picture naming task, investigated whether morphologically complex nouns (e.g., kitchen table) elicit identical levels of cumulative interference to morphologically simple nouns (e.g., table). Our results show this to be the case, indicating that cumulative interference is unaffected by lexical information such as morphological complexity. In Experiment 2, participants classified the same target objects as either man-made or natural. As expected, we observed cumulative facilitation. A separate analysis showed that this facilitation effect can be predicted by the individuals' effect sizes of cumulative interference, suggesting a strong functional link between the two effects. Our results thus point to a conceptual-semantic origin of cumulative semantic interference.https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0268915&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Anna-Lisa Döring Rasha Abdel Rahman Pienie Zwitserlood Antje Lorenz Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. PLoS ONE |
| title | Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. |
| title_full | Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. |
| title_fullStr | Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. |
| title_short | Cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level. |
| title_sort | cumulative semantic interference is blind to morphological complexity and originates at the conceptual level |
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