Behavioral-Based Sorting of Single-Trial EEG Data Reveals Evidence for ERP Correlates of Facilitation and Interference in the Picture-Word Interference Task.

ABSTRACT: A paradigm that has been widely used in cognitive science to examine questions about language production has produced an as-yet-unresolved conundrum in the findings of several event-related potential (ERP) studies. Using the picture-word interference (PWI) task, these studies have found behavioral evidence of interference effects (i.e., slower and/or less accurate responses) but ERP evidence of typical priming (i.e., smaller N400s) when to-be-named pictures are presented with semantically related words. To address these seemingly contradictory results, we performed a semantic PWI experiment with two modifications from the typical design. First, we implemented a novel behavior-contingent analysis of semantically related word-picture pairs in which single-trial ERP data were reaveraged for w

SUBMITTER: Holcomb PJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12664340 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature