Manipulating color and other visual information influences picture naming at different levels of processing: Evidence from Alzheimer subjects and normal controls

Zannino, Gian Daniele; Perri, Roberta; Salamone, Giovanna; Lorenzo, C.D. Prendes; Caltagirone, Carlo; Carlesimo, Giovanni Augusto

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.05.003

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“…Evidence for the facilitating effect of colored visuals on information processing comes from studies comparing the effect of black-and-white versus color images on attentive behavior, recall, and recognition memory (Cano, Class, & Polich, 2009; Shaari, 1998; Wichmann, Sharpe, & Gegenfurtner, 2002). Although it may be argued that the positive effect of color observed in these studies is due to object familiarity (the world is colored), studies in which unrealistic colors were used, such as in coloring line drawings of natural or artificial objects (Dwyer, 1971; Hocking & Price, 2008; Zannino et al, 2010) revealed that memory is not positively affected by resemblance to the real world, but rather by prototypicality in terms of both color and shape.…”

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The impact of first language background and visual information on the effectiveness of low-variability input

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McDonough²

2014

Applied Psycholinguistics

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This study investigated whether first language (L1) background and visual information impact the effectiveness of skewed and balanced input at promoting pattern detection. Participants (N = 84) were exposed to Esperanto sentences with the transitive construction under skewed (one noun with high token frequency) or balanced (equal token frequency) input conditions while viewing either color or black-and-white visuals. Their ability to detect the relevant morphological and syntactic features of the transitive construction was tested through a forced-judgment task using novel nouns. The results indicated no significant main effect for visual information or input type. There was, however, a significant main effect for L1 on learners' detection of the novel pattern. Implications are discussed in terms of the potential effect of L1-specific transitive encodings on second language speakers' ability to abstract novel patterns.Constructions are complex assemblies of form-meaning pairings consisting of a fixed, schematic sequence of elements governed by lexical and semantic rules. They are schematic and symbolic in nature and are abstracted from the input through two general cognitive processes: similarity reasoning (e.g., identifying a concrete feature that all exemplars have and finding a relational structure across the exemplars) and analogical reasoning (e.g., finding an underlying structure that all exemplars follow; Gentner & Markman, 1997). These cognitive processes are believed to promote pattern detection and abstraction, which can be facilitated through exposure to low-variability input, which is input with little lexical diversity or low type frequency (

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The impact of first language background and visual information on the effectiveness of low-variability input

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2014

Applied Psycholinguistics

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“…Geng, Kirchgessner, & Schnur, 2013;Mädebach, Kieseler, & Jescheniak, 2017). An alternative explanation for the presence of a colour congruency effect with verbal primes and its absence with colour box primes was suggested by one reviewer: There is neuropsychological evidence that object colour knowledge representations consist of two distinct codes, a visual and a verbal code (Tanaka, Weiskopf, & Williams, 2001; for studies supporting this distinction see Beauvois &Saillant, 1985, andHart Jr &Gordon, 1992), the latter having a stronger influence on object naming (Zannino et al, 2010). Colour words (as used as distractors in Experiment 1 and 2) and visual colour perception (as the colour boxes employed as distractors in Redmann et al, 2014) might thus contribute differently to the process of recognising and naming an object.…”

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The time course of colour congruency effects in picture naming

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In our interactions with people and objects in the world around us, as well as in communicating our thoughts, we rely on the use of conceptual knowledge stored in long-term memory. From a frame-theoretic point of view, a concept is represented by a central node and recursive attribute-value structures further specifying the concept. The present study explores whether and how the activation of an attribute within a frame might influence access to the concept's name in language production, focussing on the colour attribute. Colour has been shown to contribute to object recognition, naming, and memory retrieval, and there is evidence that colour plays a different role in naming objects that have a typical colour (high colour-diagnostic objects such as tomatoes) than in naming objects without a typical colour (low colour-diagnostic objects such as bicycles). We report two behavioural experiments designed to reveal potential effects of the activation of an object's typical colour on naming the object in a picture-word interference paradigm. This paradigm was used to investigate whether naming is facilitated when typical colours are presented alongside the to-be-named picture (e.g., the word "red" superimposed on the picture of a tomato), compared to atypical colours (such as "brown"), unrelated adjectives (such as "fast"), or random letter strings. To further explore the time course of these potential effects, the words were presented at different time points relative to the to-be-named picture (Exp. 1: −400 ms, Exp. 2: −200 ms, 0 ms, and + 200 ms). By including both high and low colour-diagnostic objects, it was possible to explore whether the activation of a colour differentially affects naming of objects that have a strong association with a typical colour. The results showed that (pre-)activation of the appropriate colour attribute facilitated naming compared to an inappropriate colour. This was only the case for objects closely connected with a typical colour. Consequences of these findings for frame-theoretic accounts of conceptual representation are discussed.

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“…A black-and-white line-drawing of a pig can be more easily recognised by human subjects if it is coloured in pink, even if the hue of the colour used is very different from the natural one. To study at which level of the object naming processes colour and photographic details exert an effect during recognition, Zannino and colleagues (Zannino et al, 2010) contrasted the performance of a group of Alzheimer patients with an age-matched control group in a naming task of line-drawings and photographs presented in colours and in black-and-white. The authors suggested that the effect of non-naturalistic colours in line-drawings arise at the semantic level, while the effect of adding natural colours to photographs arise at an early visual processing stage.…”

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Knowing that strawberries are red and seeing red strawberries: the interaction between surface colour and colour knowledge information

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Reis

Petersson

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Journal of Cognitive Psychology

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This study investigates the interaction between surface and colour knowledge information during object recognition. In two different experiments, participants were instructed to decide whether two presented stimuli belonged to the same object identity. On the non-matching trials, we manipulated the shape and colour knowledge information activated by the two stimuli by creating four different stimulus pairs: (1) similar in shape and colour (e.g. TOMATO-APPLE); (2) similar in shape and dissimilar in colour (e.g. TOMATO-COCONUT); (3) dissimilar in shape and similar in colour (e.g. TOMATO-CHILI PEPPER) and (4) dissimilar in both shape and colour (e.g. TOMATO-PEANUT). The object pictures were presented in typical and atypical colours and also in black-and-white. The interaction between surface and colour knowledge showed to be contingent upon shape information: while colour knowledge is more important for recognising structurally similar shaped objects, surface colour is more prominent for recognising structurally dissimilar shaped objects.

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Manipulating color and other visual information influences picture naming at different levels of processing: Evidence from Alzheimer subjects and normal controls

Cited by 21 publications

References 33 publications

The impact of first language background and visual information on the effectiveness of low-variability input

The impact of first language background and visual information on the effectiveness of low-variability input

The time course of colour congruency effects in picture naming

Knowing that strawberries are red and seeing red strawberries: the interaction between surface colour and colour knowledge information

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