caa a22 4500 469053062 CHVBK 20180323132835.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19921101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01067522 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01067522 The role of inhibition in a spreading-activation model of language production. I. The psycholinguistic perspective [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas Berg, Ulrich Schade] Spreading-activation models of language production are only workable to the extent that they manage to solve the "heat death” problem, i.e., the danger that too many nodes in the network are overactive at the same time. Therefore, a delicate balance between activational and deactivational forces has to be struck. Of the three prevailing dampening mechanisms of decay, self-inhibition and other-inhibition, the latter has been selected for closer scrutiny. The key proposal of this two-part article is that activation-based models of language production cannot afford to do without an inhibitory component, in particular lateral inhibition among nodes of the same level. Psycholinguistic evidence is reviewed in an attempt to insulate inhibitory from excitatory mechanisms. Although it is difficult in normal adult language use to distinguish between the effects of excessive activation and insufficient inhibition, some patterns from language acquisition and aphasia can be shown to follow from inhibitory rather than excitatory problems, thus demonstrating the reality of inhibition. In a system of activational and deactivational forces, other-inhibition is claimed to have the excitatory mechanism of syntax as its natural opponent. It is finally argued that other-inhibition offers an explanation for some puzzling findings from the experimental literature. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1992 Berg Thomas University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany aut Schade Ulrich University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany aut Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/6(1992-11-01), 405-434 0090-6905 21:6<405 1992 21 10936 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067522 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067522 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berg Thomas University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schade Ulrich University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Psycholinguistic Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 21/6(1992-11-01), 405-434 0090-6905 21:6<405 1992 21 10936 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer