Top-down influences on lexical selection during spoken word production: A 4T fMRI investigation of refractory effects in picture naming
- 1 November 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Human Brain Mapping
- Vol. 27 (11), 864-873
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20227
Abstract
Spoken word production is assumed to involve stages of processing in which activation spreads through layers of units comprising lexical‐conceptual knowledge and their corresponding phonological word forms. Using high‐field (4T) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we assessed whether the relationship between these stages is strictly serial or involves cascaded‐interactive processing, and whether central (decision/control) processing mechanisms are involved in lexical selection. Participants performed the competitor priming paradigm in which distractor words, named from a definition and semantically related to a subsequently presented target picture, slow picture‐naming latency compared to that with unrelated words. The paradigm intersperses two trials between the definition and the picture to be named, temporally separating activation in the word perception and production networks. Priming semantic competitors of target picture names significantly increased activation in the left posterior temporal cortex, and to a lesser extent the left middle temporal cortex, consistent with the predictions of cascaded‐interactive models of lexical access. In addition, extensive activation was detected in the anterior cingulate and pars orbitalis of the inferior frontal gyrus. The findings indicate that lexical selection during competitor priming is biased by top‐down mechanisms to reverse associations between primed distractor words and target pictures to select words that meet the current goal of speech. Hum Brain Mapp, 2006.Keywords
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