Language comprehension and production tasks

Words, sentences or pictures are read, heard, named or generated; reading time, naming latency, lexical decision speed and fluency counts are the measures.

This family contains 8 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Lexical Decision Task	Speeded word/nonword judgment; RT and accuracy index lexical access and are sensitive to frequency, priming, a…	5
Phonological Awareness Task	Rhyme judgment, phoneme deletion, or phoneme blending tasks index sensitivity to the sound structure of langua…	4
Picture Naming Task	Naming of pictured objects; RT and errors index lexical retrieval and are sensitive to name agreement, frequen…	6
Self-Paced Reading Task	Participants press a key to reveal each word or phrase of a sentence/passage; reading time per region indexes…	4
Semantic Priming Task	Lexical or semantic decision on targets preceded by semantically related or unrelated primes; RT facilitation…	4
Sentence Comprehension Task	Reading or listening to locally ambiguous sentences; reading-time disruptions and offline comprehension indexe…	6
Verb Generation Task	Produce a verb associated with each presented noun; indexes lexical-semantic retrieval and inhibition of prepo…	5
Verbal Fluency Task	Generate as many words as possible within a time limit matching a phonemic (letter) or semantic (category) con…	4