ABSTRACT A central question in the cognitive neuroscience of language production
concerns the cortical activation time-course by which different word production components …

A large body of behavioral, neuroimaging, and electrophysiological studies have
investigated the consequences of co-activation of representations during word production …

Computational models of lexical selection in spoken word production have been applied to
semantic interference effects in picture naming response times obtained with continuous …

It has been widely documented that word frequency (WF) modulates language processing in
various input and output modalities. WF effect has also been reported in the domain of …

Heterogeneous effects of semantic distance in language production have sparked a debate
on the central assumption of many language production models, namely that lexical …

Word retrieval is core to language production and relies on complementary processes: the
rapid activation of lexical and conceptual representations and word selection, which …

To date, two major behavioral approaches have been utilized in speech-production
research. The first involves characterizing speech errors or dysfluencies produced either …

Word selection allows us to choose words during language production. This is often viewed
as a competitive process wherein a lexical representation is retrieved among semantically …

Spoken language production involves lexical-semantic access and phonological encoding.
A theoretically important question concerns the relative time course of these two cognitive …

We investigated within-category semantic distance effects in the continuous naming
paradigm with reaction times (RTs) and event-related potentials (ERPs). Cumulative …