ABSTRACT
Introduction
Picture naming has become an important experimental paradigm in cognitive psychology. Time course of interference and priming effects observed in these paradigms support a two-stage processing model involved in naming with a semantically driven stage and a phonological driven stage (Kempen and Huijber, 1983). Schriefers, Meyer, and Levelt (1990) used a cross modal word-picture paradigm to illustrate these effects. In this paradigm, subjects are asked to name black and white line drawings under different SOA conditions. In the silent condition, only the line drawing is seen (for example, a picture of a lion). In the interfering stimulus (IS) condition, the picture is accompanied by a auditory stimulus. The (IS) is either a semantically related word or a phonologically related word or an unrelated word. At short SOA's semantic (IS) produces interference while at late SOA's phonological (IS) produce facilitation. This finding has been taken to support for a two-stage processing model involved in naming.
