Performance in relative clock time naming (e.g., pronouncing 3:50 as “ten to four”) has been described as depending on three factors: reference hour determination, minute transformation, and an additional distance component (Meeuwissen, Roelofs & Levelt, 2003). However, this model does not specify the cognitive operations that are responsible for the distance effect. We present three hypotheses...

Computational models of lexical selection in spoken word production have been applied to semantic interference effects in picture naming response times obtained with continuous naming, blocked-cyclic naming, and picture-word interference paradigms. However, a unified computational account of the effects in the three paradigms is lacking. Here, I show that the inclusion of conceptual bias in the...

The authors investigated whether visuomotor transformations that support the computation of movement distance (i.e., extent) and movement direction rely differentially on integration of egocentric and allocentric visual information. To accomplish that objective, the authors factorially arranged 17 participants' open-loop reaching movements from 2 movement-start locations with mediolateral (ML) ...

Note: This paper grew out of an invitation to Pat Keating to summarize and critique the model of phonological encoding presented in Levelt, Roelofs and Meyer (1999) at the Labphon7 meeting in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, in 2000. As a result, and because this model specifically addresses the problems of phonological and phonetic processing which concern us here, we focus largely on it, leaving li...

Cognitive judgments about an object's location are distorted by the presence of a large frame offset left or right of an observer's midline. Sensorimotor responses, however, seem immune to this induced Roelofs illusion, with observers able to accurately point to the target's location. These findings have traditionally been used as evidence for a dissociation of the visual processing required fo...

the role of orthography in difficult speech perception tasks has already been proved (dehaene & cohen, 2011). since the processing of heterographic homophones is believed to be more difficult than other words (hino & colleagues, 2013), the present study aimed at identifying the role of orthography and word forms in perception of such words during top-down processes, such as speech perception. a...