Color categories affect pre-attentive color perception

Clifford, Alexandra; Holmes, Amanda; Davies, Ian; Franklin, Anna

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.07.014

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“…It is difficult to ignore such visual stimuli (the issue of attentional control is discussed in Czigler, 2007). Clifford et al (2010) conducted a related study. Task-irrelevant colored squares were presented either to the lower or to the upper part of the visual field.…”

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“…The results of the studies of Fonteneau and Davidoff (2007) and Clifford et al (2010) can be interpreted as pure visual effects, i.e., colors were categorized within the visual system, and color naming was a consequence of perceptual categorization.…”

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“…In these studies, either a set of standards acquired a category and the deviants were members of another category or the vMMN effects of category-member deviants and non-member deviants were compared. Currently, the effects of color categories (Athanasopoulos et al, 2010;Clifford et al, 2010;Fonteneau and Davidoff, 2007;Mo et al 2011), symmetry (Kecskés-Kovács et al 2013, facial emotions (Astikainen and Hietanen, 2009;Chang et al, 2010;Gayle et al, 2012;Li et al, 2012;Susac et al, 2010;Zhao and Li, 2006), left/right hand and gender have been investigated. In addition to the effects of language on color-related vMMN, the effects of word meaning (Wang et al, 2013) and phonological categorization (Files et al, 2013) were also investigated.…”

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Visual Mismatch Negativity and Categorization

Czigler

2013

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Visual Mismatch Negativity and Categorization

Czigler

2013

Brain Topogr

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“…Within each block, 70% of the trials consisted of two identical standard colors (either G2 or B1) with a "+" fixation mark (the standard condition); 10% of the trials consisted of the same two standard colors with a "○" fixation mark (the "target" condition); 10% of the trials consisted of the standard color in the RVF and a deviant color in the LVF (the LVF-deviant condition); in the remaining 10% of trials the standard color appeared in the LVF, and the same deviant in the RVF (the RVF-deviant condition). The two blocks containing each standard color were distinguished from each other by one having the within-category deviant and the other the betweencategory deviant.Earlier, nonlateralized research (25,26,28) found that crosscategory color deviants elicit a greater vMMN response than within-category deviants, revealing language-influenced unconscious change detection at early stages of processing. From the fact that linguistic categories are activated rapidly and influence early visual processing in two visual hemifields differentially, we predicted that the vMMN effect evoked by the between-category deviant would be larger than the vMMN effect evoked by the within-category deviant only or preferentially when the deviant was presented in the RVF.…”

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“…Earlier, nonlateralized research (25,26,28) found that crosscategory color deviants elicit a greater vMMN response than within-category deviants, revealing language-influenced unconscious change detection at early stages of processing. From the fact that linguistic categories are activated rapidly and influence early visual processing in two visual hemifields differentially, we predicted that the vMMN effect evoked by the between-category deviant would be larger than the vMMN effect evoked by the within-category deviant only or preferentially when the deviant was presented in the RVF.…”

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Electrophysiological evidence for the left-lateralized effect of language on preattentive categorical perception of color

Xu²,

Kay³

et al. 2011

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Previous studies have shown that the effect of language on categorical perception of color is stronger when stimuli are presented in the right visual field than in the left. To examine whether this lateralized effect occurs preattentively at an early stage of processing, we monitored the visual mismatch negativity, which is a component of the event-related potential of the brain to an unfamiliar stimulus among a temporally presented series of stimuli. In the oddball paradigm we used, the deviant stimuli were unrelated to the explicit task. A significant interaction between color-pair type (within-category vs. between-category) and visual field (left vs. right) was found. The amplitude of the visual mismatch negativity component evoked by the within-category deviant was significantly smaller than that evoked by the between-category deviant when displayed in the right visual field, but no such difference was observed for the left visual field. This result constitutes electroencephalographic evidence that the lateralized Whorf effect per se occurs out of awareness and at an early stage of processing.lateralization | Whorfian B ehavioral, electrophysiological, and neuroimaging studies have shown that early processing of color stimuli can be affected by the categories encoded in the language of the observer (1-13). More recently, this "Whorfian" effect in color processing has been demonstrated to be stronger for stimuli exposed in the right visual field (RVF) than in the left visual field (LVF) and to disappear in the presence of a concurrent demand on verbal memory. This finding suggests that the use of lexical information in the left hemisphere is the origin of differential visual hemifield responses to color stimuli (14-23). There has been some suggestion that the left cerebral hemispheric areas implicated in important language functions may serve as a top-down control source that modulates the activity level of the visual cortex (24-28), but little is known about whether this lateralized effect occurs at early, preattentive perceptual processing stages or at postperceptual decision/response phases. Visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) is widely held to reflect the brain's early and automatic change in event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to a novel stimulus (29)(30)(31). In the present study, the vMMN component is observed in order to assess the lateralized Whorfian response to task-irrelevant changes in color stimuli. There have been several related studies in this area, however. Thierry and associates (25,26) showed in nonlateralized studies with task-irrelevant responses that Greek speakers' vMMN components, starting around 100 ms poststimulus, peaking around 200 ms, and maximal over parietooccipital scalp areas, show sensitivity to the basic lexical distinction in the Greek language between light and dark blue, whereas English speakers show no such effect. Further ERP studies have confirmed early Whorfian effects in nonlateralized paradigms (27,28). [Fonteneau and Davidoff (12) were the first to show a n...

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The Role of Culture and Language in the Development of Color Categorization

Franklin¹

2016

Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology

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Color categories affect pre-attentive color perception

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Visual Mismatch Negativity and Categorization

Visual Mismatch Negativity and Categorization

Electrophysiological evidence for the left-lateralized effect of language on preattentive categorical perception of color

The Role of Culture and Language in the Development of Color Categorization

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