... participant was presented with 4 different experimental sheets comprising the stimuli for each condition, SS words, SD words, SS pictures and SD pictures. The task was to name each object from a picture or word representation as quickly as possible. Statistical analysis using ANOVA supported hypothesis 1 in that words would be named quicker than pictures but the null hypotheses for hypothesis 2 and 3 cannot be rejected in that any differences are due to random variability. However methodological issues may have contributed to these conflicting findings providing evidence for further investigation. Introduction Object recognition is a complex process. The sequential model assumes separable stages of object naming of structural, semantic and name stages in which one stage of processing is completed before the subsequent stage begins (Roth & Bruce 1995). Experimental evidence to support this model shows that when participants are presented with a picture, they can access semantic information relevant to ...

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