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A semantic relationship between a picture and a distractor word slows picture naming relative to an unrelated condition.
In this task, participants are asked to name a picture that appears more or less coincident with a written or spoken "distractor" word.
Negative priming occurs when the prime trial distractor button becomes the critical trial target button.
The first three trials in each block cor responded to three different warm-up filler pictures that appeared with unrelated distractor words.
In the experimental session participants were instructed to name the pictures as quickly as possible, while ignoring the distractor words.
The visually presented distractor words were bare nouns that were not overtly marked for gender.
They are also more likely to name the distractor when it is in the language required for production.
The activation reached by the lexical node corresponding to a semantically related distractor ("cat") is higher than that of a semantically unrelated distractor ("cap").
