JOURNAL OF MEMORY AND LANGUAGE 33, 149-174 (1994)
Category Interference in Translation and Picture Naming: Evidence
for Asymmetric Connections between Bilingual
Memory Representations
JupitH F. Krovi AND ERIKA STEWART
Mount Holyoke College
‘Three experiments are reported in which picture naming and bilingual translation were
performed in the context of semantically categorized or randomized lists. In Experiments 1
and 3 picture naming and bilingual translation were slower in the categorized than random-
ized conditions. In Experiment 2 this category interference effect in picture naming was
‘eliminated when picture naming alternated with word naming, Taken together, the results of
the three experiments suggest that in both picture naming and bilingual translation a con-