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Time to understand pictures and words
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Here it is confirmed that naming a drawing of an object takes much longer than reading its name, but it is shown that deciding whether the object is in a given category such as ‘furniture’ takes slightly less time for a drawing than for a word, a result that seems to be inconsistent with the second view.Abstract:
WHEN an object such as a chair is presented visually, or is represented by a line drawing, a spoken word, or a written word, the initial stages in the process leading to understanding are clearly different in each case. There is disagreement, however, about whether those early stages lead to a common abstract representation in memory, the idea of a chair1–4, or to two separate representations, one verbal (common to spoken and written words), and the other image-like5. The first view claims that words and images are associated with ideas, but the underlying representation of an idea is abstract. According to the second view, the verbal representation alone is directly associated with abstract information about an object (for example, its superordinate category: furniture). Concrete perceptual information (for example, characteristic shape, colour or size) is associated with the imaginal representation. Translation from one representation to the other takes time, on the second view, which accounts for the observation that naming a line drawing takes longer than naming (reading aloud) a written word6,7. Here we confirm that naming a drawing of an object takes much longer than reading its name, but we show that deciding whether the object is in a given category such as ‘furniture’ takes slightly less time for a drawing than for a word, a result that seems to be inconsistent with the second view.read more
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From objects to names: a cognitive neuroscience approach.
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Visual and phonological components of working memory in children.
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Human Associative Memory
John R. Anderson,Gordon H. Bower +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory about human memory, about how a person encodes, retains, and retrieves information from memory, was proposed and tested, based on the HAM theory.
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Lexical Access and Naming Time.
TL;DR: The authors found a positive correlation between naming times and lexical decision times for words, but not for nonwords, indicating that word naming occurred as a result of a lexical search procedure, rather than occurring prior to lexical searching.
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A model for reading, naming and comparison
TL;DR: The basic model has been elaborated to include separate access and exit channels for verbal and pictorial stimuli, which will be involved when a word or object is assigned an abstract interpretation, or when names or graphic responses are initiated.