Witzel Christoph, Gegenfurtner Karl R
Department of Psychology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany.
J Vis. 2011 Oct 21;11(12):16. doi: 10.1167/11.12.16.
According to the lateralized category effect for color, the influence of color category borders on color perception in fast reaction time tasks is significantly stronger in the right visual field than in the left. This finding has directly related behavioral category effects to the hemispheric lateralization of language. Multiple succeeding articles have built on these findings. We ran ten different versions of the two original experiments with overall 230 naive observers. We carefully controlled the rendering of the stimulus colors and determined the genuine color categories with an appropriate naming method. Congruent with the classical pattern of a category effect, reaction times in the visual search task were lower when the two colors to be discriminated belonged to different color categories than when they belonged to the same category. However, these effects were not lateralized: They appeared to the same extent in both visual fields.
根据颜色的偏侧化类别效应,在快速反应时间任务中,颜色类别边界对颜色感知的影响在右视野中比在左视野中显著更强。这一发现直接将行为类别效应与语言的半球偏侧化联系起来。后续的多篇文章都基于这些发现展开。我们对最初的两个实验进行了十个不同版本的操作,共有230名未受过训练的观察者参与。我们仔细控制了刺激颜色的呈现,并通过适当的命名方法确定了真正的颜色类别。与类别效应的经典模式一致,在视觉搜索任务中,当要区分的两种颜色属于不同颜色类别时,反应时间比它们属于同一类别时要短。然而,这些效应并没有偏侧化:它们在两个视野中出现的程度相同。