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Categorizing chairs and naming pears: Category differences in object processing as a function of task and priming

Lloyd-Jones, Toby J., Humphreys, Glyn W. (1997) Categorizing chairs and naming pears: Category differences in object processing as a function of task and priming. Memory & Cognition, 25 (5). pp. 606-624. ISSN 0090-502X. (doi:10.3758/bf03211303) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:18164)

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Abstract

Four experiments are reported examining the locus of structural similarity effects in picture recognition and naming with normal subjects. Subjects carried out superordinate categorization and naming tasks with picture and word forms of clothing, furniture, fruit, and vegetable exemplars. The main findings were as follows: (I) Responses to pictures of fruit and vegetables (''structurally similar'' objects) were slowed relative to pictures of clothing and furniture (''structurally dissimilar'' objects). This structural similarity difference was greater for picture naming than for superordinate categorization of pictures. (2) Structural similarity effects in picture naming were reduced by repetition priming. Repetition priming effects were equivalent from picture and word naming as prime tasks. (3) However, superordinate categorization of the prime did not produce the structural similarity effects on priming found for picture naming. Furthermore, such priming effects did not arise for picture or word categorization or for reading picture names as target tasks. It is proposed that structural similarity effects on priming object processing are located in processes mapping semantic representations of pictures to name representations required to select names for objects. Visually based competition between fruit and vegetables produces competition in name selection, which is reduced by priming the mappings between semantic and name representations.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.3758/bf03211303
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: M.A. Ziai
Date Deposited: 20 Apr 2009 17:11 UTC
Last Modified: 09 Mar 2023 11:31 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18164 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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