{"id":47,"date":"2018-03-05T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T17:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dev.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2022-01-15T16:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T16:45:41","slug":"find-your-words","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/mindyourlanguage\/find-your-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Find your Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

The investigation of semantic context effects has served as a valuable tool in investigating mechanisms of language production. Classic semantic interference effects from the picture-word interference, semantic blocking, and speech error elicitation paradigms have provided influential support for a competitive lexical selection mechanism. However, recent interest in semantic facilitation effects from non-categorical semantic relations has stimulated a discussion on whether or not context effects reflect competition during lexical selection. Together with my colleague Rasha Abdel Rahman<\/a>, we have proposed a framework of lexical selection by competition that is sensitive to the activation of lexical \"\"cohorts.\u00a0 Support for our Swinging Lexical Network<\/strong> hypothesis is drawn from a variety of ‘unexpected’ interference effects, for example from semantic associates. We suggest that by adopting the assumptions of our proposal we can parsimoniously account for a majority of the discussed semantic facilitation and interference.<\/p>\n

Relevant Publications:<\/h1>\n

Lin, H.-P., Kuhlen, A. K., Melinger, A.<\/strong>, 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<\/a><\/p>\n

Abdel Rahman, R. & Melinger, A.<\/strong> (2019). Semantic processing during language production: An update of the swinging lexical network. Language, Cognition & Neuroscience. <\/em>DOI:<\/em>10.1080\/23273798.2019.1599970<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinger, A. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2019). To re-tune or not to re-tune. Comments on the flexible criterion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, doi.org\/10.1080\/02643294.2018.1562886<\/a><\/p>\n

Rose, S.B., Aristei,S., Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2018). The closer they are the more they interfere: Semantic similarity of word distractors increases competition in language production. Journal of Experimental\u00a0Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition.\u00a0doi.org\/10.1037\/xlm0000592<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Open Science Collaboration. (2015). Estimating the reproducibility of psycholgocial science. Science, 349<\/em>(6251). DOI: 10.1126\/science.aac4716<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinger, A., Branigan, H., & Pickering, M. (2014). Parallelism in Language Production. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 29(6), 663-683.<\/em> doi: 10.1080\/23273798.2014.906635\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Melinger, A. & Abdel Rahman, R. (2013). Lexical selection is competitive: evidence from indirectly activated semantic associates during picture naming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 39(<\/em>2), 348-364. doi: 10.1037\/a0028941<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Aristei, S., Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2011). Electrophysiological chronometry of semantic context effects in language production. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23,<\/em> 1567-1586. doi: 10.1162\/jocn.2010.21474<\/a><\/span><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2011). The dynamic microstructure of speech production: Semantic interference built on the fly. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 37<\/em>, 149-161. doi: 10.1037\/a0021208<\/a>
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Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2009). Dismissing lexical competition does not make speaking any easier: A rejoinder to Mahon and Caramazza (2009). Language and Cognitive Processes, 24<\/em>(5), 749-760. doi:10.1080\/01690960802648491<\/a><\/p>\n

Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2009). Semantic context effects in language production: A swinging lexical network proposal and a review. Language and Cognitive Processes, 24<\/em>(5), 713-734. doi: 10.1080\/01690960802597250<\/a><\/p>\n

Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2008). Enhanced phonological facilitation and traces of concurrent word form activation in speech production: An object naming study with multiple distractors. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61<\/em>, 1410-1440. <\/a>doi:10.1080\/17470210701560724<\/a><\/p>\n

Abdel Rahman, R., & Melinger, A. (2007). When bees hamper the production of honey: Lexical interference from associates in speech production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 33<\/em>(3), 604-614. doi: 10.1037\/0278-7393.33.3.604<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a> Melinger, A., & Abdel Rahman, R. (2004). Investigating the interplay between semantic and phonological distractor effects in picture naming. Brain and Language, 90<\/em>, 213-220. doi: 10.1016\/S0093-934X(03)00434-6<\/a><\/p>\n

This research has been supported by:<\/strong> \"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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