A MODEL FOR READING, NAMING AND COMPARISON
Philip H. K. Seymour · British Journal of Psychology · 1973
Morton (1968) has described a general model for word recognition and other language‐processing tasks. In this paper, Morton's model is used as a framework for discussion of a number of tasks in which a measure is taken of the latency to read words, name objects or compare printed names and objects. In order to accommodate these tasks, the basic model has been elaborated to include separate access and exit channels for verbal and pictorial stimuli, which will be involved when a word or object is assigned an abstract interpretation, or when names or graphic responses are initiated. In addition, the model includes a channel for alteration of the content of the semantic system, which is employed in superordinate naming and in congruence judgements.