Investigating the role of verbal templates in contingent capture by color

Autor(en)
Diane Baier, Ulrich Ansorge
Abstrakt

To investigate if top-down contingent capture by color cues relies on verbal or semantic templates, we combined different stimuli representing colors physically or semantically in six contingent-capture experiments. In contingent capture, only cues that match the top-down search templates lead to validity effects (shorter search times and fewer errors for validly than for invalidly cued targets) resulting from attentional capture by the cue. We compared validity effects of color cues and color-word cues in top-down search for color targets (Experiment 1a) and color-word targets (Experiment 2). We also compared validity effects of color cues and color-associated symbolic cues during search for color targets (Experiment 1b) and of color-word cues during search for both color and color-word targets (Experiment 3). Only cues of the same stimulus category as the target (either color or color-word cues) captured attention. This makes it unlikely that color search is based on verbal or semantic search templates. Additionally, the validity effect of matching color-word cues during search for color-word targets was neither changed by cue-target graphic (font) similarity versus dissimilarity (Experiment 4) nor by articulatory suppression (Experiment 5). These results suggested either a phonological long-term memory template or an orthographically mediated effect of the color-word cues during search for color-words. Altogether, our findings are in line with a pronounced role of color-based templates during contingent capture by color and do not support semantic or verbal influences in this situation.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden
Journal
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics
Band
81
Seiten
1846–1879
Anzahl der Seiten
34
ISSN
1943-3921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01701-y
Publikationsdatum
03-2019
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501011 Kognitionspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems, Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/investigating-the-role-of-verbal-templates-in-contingent-capture-by-color(0a71051c-9708-445a-a0a3-2e1a71ac730b).html