This summer, I have two special guests in my lab! Two fantastic S6 students are working on my lab throught the Nuffield Research Placement Scheme to develop an on-line picture norming study. Their work will contribute to my research on semantic effects as well as support research on how we select dialect and register words. I hope they are learning loads in the process.
My new paper on semantic distance effects is finally out in JEP:LMC. This paper, with Sebastian Rose, Sabrina Aristei, and Rasha Abdel Rahman, reports a picture-word interference experiment in which we manipulated semantic distance systematically within taxonomic hierarchies. We provide evidence from RTs, errors, and ERPs that close relationships (orangutan – gorilla) induce more semantic competition than far relationships (organutan – horse).
I had a wonderful time at the 10th meeting of the International Workshop on Language Production, hosted by the MPI for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, NL. For anyone who didn’t get a chance to see my poster, you can download it HERE.