Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA.
Cogn Neuropsychol. 2003 May 1;20(3):507-23. doi: 10.1080/02643290244000275.
Does conceptual knowledge about objects influence their perceptual processing? There is some evidence for interactions between semantic and visual knowledge in tasks requiring both long-term memory and lexical access. Here we assessed whether similar perceptual/semantic interactions arise during sequential visual matching, a task that does not require access to semantic information. Matching of two-dimensional or three-dimensional novel objects was facilitated when the objects were associated with arbitrarily assigned distinctive artificial semantic concepts as compared to similar semantic concepts. In contrast to prior demonstrations, this effect was obtained in a task that did not require naming objects, and was not affected by participants rehearsing consonant strings, suggesting a direct influence from semantic associations on visual object recognition.
概念知识是否会影响对物体的感知处理？在需要长期记忆和词汇检索的任务中，有一些证据表明语义和视觉知识之间存在相互作用。在这里，我们评估了在序列视觉匹配过程中是否会出现类似的感知/语义相互作用，而这种任务不需要访问语义信息。与相似的语义概念相比，当二维或三维新物体与任意分配的独特人工语义概念相关联时，对它们的匹配会变得更加容易。与之前的演示不同，这种效果是在不需要命名物体的任务中获得的，并且不受参与者重复辅音串的影响，这表明语义联想会直接影响视觉物体识别。
