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Two experiments are reported that were designed to assess effects of semantic similarity on naming and verification of spatial locations. In Experiment I, the wordsabove, below, left, andright occurred as distractors when Ss named the location of the word relative to a dot, or the location of a dot relative to the word. In Experiment II. the same dot-word displays were used, but Ss reported whether or not the word correctly specified its own location relative to the dot or the location of the dot relative to itself. The naming task showed some within-dimension facilitation and interference effects, most notably when Ss named the location occupied by the distractor word. The verification tasks showed quite substantial retardation of “no” responses when the word and location represented different values on either the horizontal or the vertical dimension.
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This research was supported by a grant. HR/1787/1, from the Social Science Research Council of the U.K. The author is grateful to Jenny Greenhalgh for her assistance in obtaining and analyzing the data.
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Seymour, P.H.K. Stroop interference in naming and verifying spatial locations. Perception & Psychophysics 14, 95–100 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198622
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