Latency time between word reading and naming picture tasks is compared. Seventy-four children, grades 2, 3 and 4 grades of a primary public school, without developmental complains and without schooling difficulties, participated. Word reading and naming picture with equivalent stimuli were applied. Latency time, registered in a computational program, was the period between stimuli presentation and the beginning of the child's oral response. Results show that children from all grades spend longer latency time for naming. Difference in grades was observed only for reading. Psycholinguistics traits of the stimuli affect in different manners the word and picture processing. Tasks have a common denominator which is more evident in stimuli frequency.
Word reading; picture naming; latency time
