Lexical selection and verbal self-monitoring: Effects of lexicality, context, and time pressure in picture-word interference

► We conducted four picture-word interference tasks. ► Naming was faster and there were fewer distractor naming errors with a pseudoword distractor compared to a word distractor. ► However, when picture naming trials were intermixed with pseudoword trials, these results reversed. ► These findings highlight the role of the verbal self-monitor in lexical selection.