Colour specificity in episodic and in perceptual object recognition with enhanced colour impact

Zimmer, Hubert D.; Steiner, Astrid

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“…That is, the mid-frontal ERP old-new effect was found to be larger for perceptually identical versus perceptually modified studied items. These perceptual specificity effects seem to be independent of the task relevance of the manipulated feature (Ecker et al, 2007a), which is another reason to believe that familiarity appraisal takes place in a rather automatic, bottom-up fashion (for similar task-independent effects of feature manipulations on behavioral measures, see Zimmer & Steiner, 2003;Engelkamp, Zimmer, & de Vega, 2001;Zimmer, 1995).…”

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ERP Evidence for Flexible Adjustment of Retrieval Orientation and Its Influence on Familiarity

Ecker

Zimmer

2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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The assumption was tested that familiarity memory as indexed by a mid-frontal ERP old-new effect is modulated by retrieval orientation. A randomly cued category-based versus exemplar-specific recognition memory test, requiring flexible adjustment of retrieval orientation, was conducted. Results show that the mid-frontal ERP old-new effect is sensitive to the manipulation of study-test congruency-that is, whether the same object is repeated identically or a different category exemplar is presented at test. Importantly, the effect pattern depends on subjects' retrieval orientation. With a specific orientation, only same items elicited an early old-new effect (same > different = new), whereas in the general condition, the old-new effect was graded (same > different > new). This supports the view that both perceptual and conceptual processes can contribute to familiarity memory and demonstrates that the rather automatic process of familiarity is not only data driven but influenced by top-down retrieval orientation, which subjects are able to adjust on a flexible basis.

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ERP Evidence for Flexible Adjustment of Retrieval Orientation and Its Influence on Familiarity

Ecker

Zimmer

2009

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Accordingly, we argue that intrinsic features are involuntarily activated when an item is retrieved. Evidence for this can be found in sensory mismatch effects observed in episodic object recognition (Cooper, Biederman, & Hummel, 1992;Jolicoeur, 1987;Zimmer, 1995;Zimmer & Steiner, 2003; for a review, see Engelkamp, Zimmer, & de Vega, 2001): When the size, orientation, or color of objects is changed from study to test, reaction times (RTs) increase, even if the feature is irrelevant for the old-new decision (inclusion task). This is not to say, however, that these effects are always and only based on familiarity.…”

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Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory

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“…Contrary to the perceptual specificity assumption, attempts to find color-specific priming effects have produced inconsistent results. Changes in item color between study and test did not affect object naming (Cave et al, 1996;Lloyd-Jones, 2005, Experiment 1;Vernon & Lloyd-Jones, 2003, Experiments 1 and 2a), perceptual facilitation in object drawing (Treisman, 1992), picture fragment identification (Wippich & Mecklenbräuker, 1998), word-picture matching (Zimmer & Steiner, 2003), or object preference (Seamon et al, 1997). 1 Yet color specificity was found for color naming (Musen & O'Neill, 1997;Musen, Szerlip, & Szerlip, 1999).…”

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The Mere Exposure Effect Is Sensitive to Color Information

Hupbach

Melzer

Hardt

2006

Experimental Psychology

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Priming effects in perceptual tests of implicit memory are assumed to be perceptually specific. Surprisingly, changing object colors from study to test did not diminish priming in most previous studies. However, these studies used implicit tests that are based on object identification, which mainly depends on the analysis of the object shape and therefore operates color-independently. The present study shows that color effects can be found in perceptual implicit tests when the test task requires the processing of color information. In Experiment 1, reliable color priming was found in a mere exposure design (preference test). In Experiment 2, the preference test was contrasted with a conceptually driven color-choice test. Altering the shape of object from study to test resulted in significant priming in the color-choice test but eliminated priming in the preference test. Preference judgments thus largely depend on perceptual processes. In Experiment 3, the preference and the color-choice test were studied under explicit test instructions. Differences in reaction times between the implicit and the explicit test suggest that the implicit test results were not an artifact of explicit retrieval attempts. In contrast with previous assumptions, it is therefore concluded that color is part of the representation that mediates perceptual priming.

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Colour specificity in episodic and in perceptual object recognition with enhanced colour impact

Cited by 13 publications

References 43 publications

ERP Evidence for Flexible Adjustment of Retrieval Orientation and Its Influence on Familiarity

ERP Evidence for Flexible Adjustment of Retrieval Orientation and Its Influence on Familiarity

Color and context: An ERP study on intrinsic and extrinsic feature binding in episodic memory

The Mere Exposure Effect Is Sensitive to Color Information

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