We investigated whether semantic interference occurring during visual word recognition is resolved using domain-general control mechanism or using more specific mechanisms related to semantic processing. We asked participants to perform a lexical decision task with taboo stimuli, which induce semantic interference, as well as well as a semantic Stroop task and a Simon task, intended as benchmarks of linguistic-semantic and non-linguistic interference, respectively. Using a correlational approach, we investigated potential similarities between effects produced in the three tasks, both at the level of overall means and as a function of response speed (delta-plot analysis). Correlations selectively surfaced between the lexical decision and the semantic Stroop task. These findings suggest that, during visual word recognition, semantic interference is controlled by semantic-specific mechanisms, which intervene to face prepotent but task-irrelevant semantic information interfering with the accomplishment of the task's goal.

我们研究了是否使用域通用控制机制或使用与语义处理相关的更具体的机制来解决视觉单词识别过程中发生的语义干扰。我们要求参与者执行带有禁忌刺激的词汇决策任务，这会导致语义干扰，以及语义 Stroop 任务和 Simon 任务，旨在分别作为语言语义和非语言干扰的基准。使用相关方法，我们调查了三个任务中产生的效果之间的潜在相似性，无论是在总体平均值水平还是作为响应速度的函数（增量图分析）。词汇决策和语义 Stroop 任务之间的相关性选择性地浮出水面。这些发现表明，在视觉单词识别过程中，