Implicit object naming in visual search: Evidence from phonological competition
| Autor: | Stephen D. Goldinger, Michael C. Hout, Stephen C. Walenchok |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Male Linguistics and Language Eye Movements Object (grammar) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Neuropsychological Tests Article 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Task (project management) Association 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Memory Similarity (psychology) Reaction Time Humans Names Attention 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Disengagement theory Cued speech Visual search Analysis of Variance Communication business.industry 05 social sciences Eye movement Linguistics Sensory Systems High memory Visual Perception Female Cues Psychology business Perceptual Masking Photic Stimulation 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 78:2633-2654 |
| ISSN: | 1943-393X 1943-3921 |
| DOI: | 10.3758/s13414-016-1184-6 |
| Popis: | During visual search, people are distracted by objects that visually resemble search targets; search is impaired when targets and distractors share overlapping features. In this study, we examined whether a nonvisual form of similarity, overlapping object names, can also affect search performance. In three experiments, people searched for images of real-world objects (e.g., a beetle) among items whose names either all shared the same phonological onset (/bi/), or were phonologically varied. Participants either searched for one or three potential targets per trial, with search targets designated either visually or verbally. We examined standard visual search (Experiments 1 and 3) and a self-paced serial search task wherein participants manually rejected each distractor (Experiment 2). We hypothesized that people would maintain visual templates when searching for single targets, but would rely more on object names when searching for multiple items and when targets were verbally cued. This reliance on target names would make performance susceptible to interference from similar-sounding distractors. Experiments 1 and 2 showed the predicted interference effect in conditions with high memory load and verbal cues. In Experiment 3, eye-movement results showed that phonological interference resulted from small increases in dwell time to all distractors. The results suggest that distractor names are implicitly activated during search, slowing attention disengagement when targets and distractors share similar names. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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