Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension
Is a bear white in the woods? Parallel representation of implied object color during language comprehension
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DOI：
10.3758/pbr.16.3.573
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Lynott, Dermot
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作者：
Connell, Louise;Lynott, Dermot
不可否认，颜色对于物体的表现是重要的，但上下文改变物体颜色的能力也是如此。本研究考察了典型颜色和非典型颜色的隐含知觉信息在语言理解过程中的表征方式。受试者阅读暗示目标物体的(典型或非典型)颜色的句子，然后执行一项修改的Stroop任务，在该任务中，他们说出目标词的墨水颜色(典型、非典型或无关)。结果表明，当物体的墨水颜色是典型的(例如，在棕色墨水中的熊)时，以及当它与前一句所暗示的颜色(例如，在乔兴奋地看到北极的熊之后，穿着白色墨水的熊)时，颜色命名都是容易的。这些发现表明，不寻常的语境导致人们并行地呈现典型的和特定于情景的知觉信息，并且这些类型的信息与知觉模拟的专门化有关。
Color is undeniably important to object representations, but so too is the ability of context to alter the color of an object. The present study examined how implied perceptual information about typical and atypical colors is represented during language comprehension. Participants read sentences that implied a (typical or atypical) color for a target object and then performed a modified Stroop task in which they named the ink color of the target word (typical, atypical, or unrelated). Results showed that color naming was facilitated both when ink color was typical for that object (e.g., bear in brown ink) and when it matched the color implied by the previous sentence (e.g., bear in white ink following Joe was excited to see a bear at the North Pole). These findings suggest that unusual contexts cause people to represent in parallel both typical and scenario-specific perceptual information, and these types of information are discussed in relation to the specialization of perceptual simulations.