WHY IS NAMING LONGER THAN READING

This survey of many researches of the author shows that neither training nor discriminability of the stimulus can explain the longer duration of the naming process as compared with the reading process. In the three experiments reported here, the discriminability tested in three different ways (recognition threshold, manual reaction time, identification of the stimulus) is unable to explain the longer duration of naming processes. The explanation of the difference in duration between naming and reading has to be searched into the process of association between S and R which is more complex and more uncertain than in reading. © 1969.