Contemporary developments inspired by the research of Charles W. Eriksen

Lappin, Joseph S.; Logan, Gordon D.; Fournier, Lisa R.; Hoffman, James E.

doi:10.3758/s13414-020-02230-9

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“…More generally, the influence of context on our cognitive processes has been well-documented in experimental psychology. For instance, in the Flanker task (Eriksen & Eriksen, 1974;Lappin et al, 2021 for recent discussion) participants are instructed to identify a relevant characteristic of the stimulus (e.g., the orientation of an arrow stimulus) that is presented in a context that can be congruent or incongruent with it. Thus, participants may need to identify an arrow pointing to the left among other arrows pointing to the left (congruent context), or among other arrows pointing to the right (incongruent context).…”

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Does social distancing affect the processing of brand logos?

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Social distancing and isolation have been imposed to contrast the spread of COVID‐19. The present study investigates whether social distancing affects our cognitive system, in particular the processing of different types of brand logos in different moments of the pandemic spread in Italy. In a size discrimination task, six different logos belonging to three categories (letters, symbols, and social images) were presented in their original format and spaced. Two samples of participants were tested: one just after the pandemic spread in Italy, the other one after 6 months. Results showed an overall distancing effect (i.e., spaced stimuli are processed slower than original ones) that interacted with the sample, revealing a significant effect only for participants belonging to the second sample. However, both groups showed a distancing effect modulated by the type of logo as it only emerged for social images. Results suggest that social distancing behaviors have been integrated in our cognitive system as they appear to affect our perception of distance when social images are involved.

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