Abstract
Semantic interference and orthographic facilitation are common findings in Stroop-like color and picture-naming tasks. We investigated whether these context effects are also obtained when, instead of colors or pictures, definitions are used as target stimuli. In Experiment 1 both effects were obtained when definitions of colors such as «THE COLOR OF TOMATOES?» had to be named. This finding was replicated in Experiment 2, in which the definitions were taken from a larger set of semantic categories. The remaining 4 experiments showed that the semantic interference effect cannot be attributed to a strategic match or nonmatch decision (Experiment 3) and does not show up when the distractor word precedes the definition (Experiments 4, 5, and 6)
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