Lexical selection with competing distractors: Evidence from left temporal lobe lesions.

ABSTRACT: According to the competition account of lexical selection in word production, conceptually driven word retrieval involves the activation of a set of candidate words in left temporal cortex and competitive selection of the intended word from this set, regulated by frontal cortical mechanisms. However, the relative contribution of these brain regions to competitive lexical selection is uncertain. In the present study, five patients with left prefrontal cortex lesions (overlapping in ventral and dorsal lateral cortex), eight patients with left lateral temporal cortex lesions (overlapping in middle temporal gyrus), and 13 matched controls performed a picture-word interference task. Distractor words were semantically related or unrelated to the picture, or the name of the picture (congruent con

SUBMITTER: Piai V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5902514 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature