Response exclusion in word–word tasks: A comment on Roelofs, Piai and Schriefers

Abstract

Roelofs, Piai, and Schriefers discuss a series of results obtained from various word reading tasks in the context of word and picture distractors. They argue that these results support WEAVER++, a computational model of word production that assumes a competitive lexical selection mechanism, and challenge the response exclusion hypothesis, a model that assumes a non-competitive lexical selection mechanism. At odds with this claim, I argue here that these data do not pose problems for the response exclusion hypothesis. I also discuss new avenues of research to advance the debate on the mechanism of lexical selection.