Semantic processing during language production: an update of the swinging lexical network

R Abdel Rahman, A Melinger - Language, Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Semantic processing in language production includes different meaning relations
determining the selection of lexical representations that best express the intended message …

Beyond speaking: neurocognitive perspectives on language production in social interaction

AK Kuhlen, R Abdel Rahman - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The human faculty to speak has evolved, so has been argued, for communicating with
others and for engaging in social interactions. Hence the human cognitive system should be …

Do children learn from their prediction mistakes? A registered report evaluating error-based theories of language acquisition

J Fazekas, A Jessop, J Pine… - Royal Society Open …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Error-based theories of language acquisition suggest that children, like adults, continuously
make and evaluate predictions in order to reach an adult-like state of language use …

Initiation of utterance planning in response to pre-recorded and “live” utterances

MJ Sjerps, C Decuyper… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In everyday conversation, interlocutors often plan their utterances while listening to their
conversational partners, thereby achieving short gaps between their turns. Important issues …

Planning when to say: Dissociating cue use in utterance initiation using cross-validation.

L Brehm, AS Meyer - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
In conversation, turns follow each other with minimal gaps. To achieve this, speakers must
launch their utterances shortly before the predicted end of the partner's turn. We examined …

Mental chronometry of speaking in dialogue: Semantic interference turns into facilitation

AK Kuhlen, RA Rahman - Cognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Numerous studies demonstrate that the production of words is delayed when speakers
process in temporal proximity semantically related words. Yet the experimental settings …

Mental representations of partner task cause interference in picture naming

L Brehm, L Taschenberger, A Meyer - Acta psychologica, 2019 - Elsevier
Interference in picture naming occurs from representing a partner's preparations to speak
(Gambi, van de Cavey, & Pickering, 2015). We tested the origins of this interference using a …

Joint language production: An electrophysiological investigation of simulated lexical access on behalf of a task partner.

AK Kuhlen, R Abdel Rahman - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
This study investigates in a joint action setting a well-established effect in speech
production, cumulative semantic interference, an increase in naming latencies when naming …

Visual memory of a co-actor's target during joint search

C Sakata, Y Ueda, Y Moriguchi - Psychological Research, 2023 - Springer
Studies on joint action show that when two actors turn-takingly attend to each other's target
that appears one at a time, a partner's target is accumulated in memory. However, in the real …

Ad-hoc thematic relations form through communication: effects on lexical-semantic processing during language production

HP Lin, AK Kuhlen, R Abdel Rahman - Language, Cognition and …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In this preregistered study, we investigate whether themes conveyed by task partners'
narratives reveal semantic relationships between objects that would otherwise be perceived …