Thematic object pairs produce stronger and faster perceptual grouping than taxonomic pairs
Thematic object pairs produce stronger and faster perceptual grouping than taxonomic pairs
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主题对象对比分类对象对产生更强、更快的感知分组
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2021
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J. Geng
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Joseph C Nah;J. Geng
Studies of visual object processing have long appreciated that semantic meaning is automatically extracted. However, “semantics” has largely been defined as a unitary concept that describes all meaning-based information. In contrast, the concept literature divides semantics into taxonomic and thematic types. Taxonomic relationships reflect categorization by similarities (e.g., dog – wolf); thematic groups are based on complementary relationships (e.g., swimsuit – goggles). Critically, thematic relationships are learned from the experienced co-occurrence of objects whereas taxonomic relationships are based on shared structural similarities. In two studies with adults (N=66 Experiment 1; N=44 Experiment 2), we test whether visual processing of thematic objects is more rapid because they form a perceptual unit and serve as mutual visual primes. The results demonstrate that visual processing benefits between thematically related objects are earlier than taxonomic ones, revealing a link between how information is acquired (e.g., experienced vs. unobserved) and how it modulates perception.