Review of Articulatory Suppression Methodologies in Cognitive Research

A mini-review by Chiara De Livio, examining articles from the last decade that use articulatory suppression to disrupt phonological access. The 2.8 MB document, last updated in March 2026, provides an overview of protocols, emphasizing the heterogeneity of methodological choices in verbal interference tasks. It discusses implications for embodied cognition and stresses the need for evidence on the neurocognitive effects of different suppression modalities.

Use Cases

• Designing standardized articulatory suppression protocols based on the review of methodological heterogeneity.
• Comparing the effects of different verbal stimuli (meaningful vs. meaningless) and articulation modalities (aloud, silent, whispered) on task performance.
• Selecting appropriate dual-task control conditions when articulatory suppression is the primary experimental manipulation.
• Improving methodological reporting for replicability when articulatory suppression is used as a control task.

Strengths

• Licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation.
• Focuses on a specific methodological issue (articulatory suppression) over a defined period (the last decade).
• File size is 2.8 MB, indicating a document of manageable length for review.

Limitations

• The dataset is a single DOCX file; column-level structure and quantitative data are unknown.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for meta-analysis.
• The description does not specify the exact number of articles reviewed or provide a structured data table.

Provenance

Source

Chiara De Livio via figshare.

Collection Method

A review and synthesis of academic articles from the last decade.

Time Range

Covers studies from approximately the last 10 years prior to the review's creation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 06:56:48; freshness should be verified.