I’m very excited to see this paper in print.

Lin, H.-P., Kuhlen, A. K., Melinger, A., Aristei, S., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2021). Concurrent semantic priming and lexical interference for close semantic relations in Blocked-cyclic picture naming: Electrophysiological signatures. Psychophysiology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/psyp.13990

In a blocked-cyclic picture naming task, we found that only close, but not distant relations, elicited semantic facilitation or interference effects in behavioral and electrophysiological responses. With two functionally-dissociable ERP components, facilitatory N1 and inhibitory P2/N2, we demonstrate that semantic priming and lexical competition happen concurrently during speech production. Our study demonstrates for the first time that semantic priming and lexical competition jointly modulate naming latencies, shifting semantic context effects in the direction of facilitation or interference.