Year: 1997
Type: article
Abstract: This study examined the effect of different object verification tasks on perceptual and conceptual color processing. Participants decided whether two successively presented stimuli (two pictures or a word then a picture) referred to the same object. Although the task did not require object-color processing, prototypical object-color was semantically activated and influenced verification decisions. This automatic conceptual color processing was more powerful than perceptual processing of the surface color presented in the picture. Moreover, conceptual color processing occurred in tasks involving only two pictures, implying that activation of prototypical color does not depend on verbal processing. Rather, activation of prototypical color depends on whether pictures are semantically encoded during verification, which in turn, occurs when verification cannot proceed from structural object information.
Source: Acta Psychologica
Author: Jane E. Joseph
Institution: University of Virginia
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,670
OpenAlex ID: W2010790709