Can the humped animal's knee conceal its name? Commentary on: “The roles of shared vs. distinctive conceptual features in lexical access”

Frontiers in Psychology

Maria Montefinese¹ 

关键词: shared feature;    distinctive feature;    picture-word interference;    lexical access;    lexical selection by competition;    response exclusion;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00418

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The representation of meaning is a pivotal topic for theories of language processing. A prevalent view is based on semantic features, considering conceptual representations as distributed patterns of activity across sets of features related to different aspects of knowledge and experience (e.g., Rosch and Mervis, 1975; Vigliocco et al., 2004; Cree et al., 2006). These features can vary in their relative salience to a concept's meaning and co-occur to various degrees across concepts. For example, distinctive features occur in few concepts and allow people to distinguish very similar concepts (Grondin et al., 2009), while shared features occur across many concepts thus indicating similarity among them (Montefinese et al., 2014a). Existing studies yield conflicting results about the relevance of featural characteristics (Montefinese et al., 2014b), leaving it unclear what theoretical interpretations can be drawn.

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