2025/03/20 by Christina Papoutsi, Elli N. Tourtouri, Vitória Piai +2 · 1 voice
Computer Science · Neuroscience · #Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning #Memory Processes and Influences #Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
paper · doi:10.1037/xlm0001472
openalex publication_date 2025/03/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
). We analyzed data from a speeded picture naming task (Lampe et al., 2023) and investigated whether lexical errors are produced as fast as target (i.e., correct) responses, thus arising from premature selection, or whether they are produced more slowly than target responses, thus arising from lapses of attention. Using ex-Gaussian analyses, we found that lexical errors were slower than targets in the tail, but not in the normal part of the response time distribution, with the tail effect primarily resulting from errors that were not coordinates, that is, members of the target's semantic category. Moreover, we compared the coordinate errors and target responses in terms of their word-intrinsic properties and found that they were overall more frequent, shorter, and acquired earlier than targets. Given the present findings, we conclude that coordinate errors occur due to a premature selection but in the context of intact attentional control, following the same lexical constraints as targets, while other errors, given the variability in their nature, may vary in their origin, with one potential source being lapses of attention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).