Richter Tobias, Zwaan Rolf A
Department of Psychology, University of Cologne, Koeln, Germany.
Cognition. 2009 Jun;111(3):383-9. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.02.011. Epub 2009 Mar 31.
Two experiments were conducted to investigate whether color representations are routinely activated when color words are processed. Congruency effects of colors and color words were observed in both directions. Lexical decisions on color words were faster when preceding colors matched the color named by the word. Color-discrimination responses were slowed down when preceding color words mismatched the test color even if no task had to be performed on these words. These findings are consistent with the experiential view of language comprehension according to which color perception and the comprehension of color words are based on overlapping representational resources.
进行了两项实验，以研究在处理颜色词时颜色表征是否会被常规激活。在两个方向上都观察到了颜色和颜色词的一致性效应。当先前的颜色与词所命名的颜色匹配时，对颜色词的词汇判断更快。当先前的颜色词与测试颜色不匹配时，即使不需要对这些词执行任何任务，颜色辨别反应也会减慢。这些发现与语言理解的经验观点一致，根据该观点，颜色感知和颜色词的理解基于重叠的表征资源。
