Department of Neuroscience e Imaging University of Chieti, Italy.
Department of Humanities University of Naples "Federico II", Italy.
Acta Psychol (Amst). 2024 Apr;244:104172. doi: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2024.104172. Epub 2024 Feb 7.
Color influences behavior, from the simplest to the most complex, through controlled and more automatic information elaboration processes. Nonetheless, little is known about how and when these highly interconnected processes interact. This study investigates the interaction between controlled and automatic processes during the processing of color information in a lexical decision task. Participants discriminated stimuli presented in different colors (red, blue, green) as words or pseudowords. Results showed that while color did not affect the faster and more accurate recognition of words compared to pseudowords, performance was influenced when examining words and pseudowords separately. Pseudowords were recognized faster when presented in blue or red, suggesting a potential influence of evolutionary color preferences when processing is not guided by more controlled processes. With words, emotional enhancement effects were found, with a preference for green independent of valence. These results suggest that controlled and more automatic processes do interact when processing color information according to stimulus type and task.
颜色会影响行为，从最简单到最复杂，通过控制和更自动的信息加工过程。尽管如此，人们对这些高度互联的过程如何以及何时相互作用知之甚少。本研究在词汇判断任务中研究了颜色信息加工过程中控制和自动加工之间的相互作用。参与者将呈现不同颜色（红色、蓝色、绿色）的刺激物辨别为单词或伪词。结果表明，虽然颜色并不影响与伪词相比更快、更准确地识别单词，但当分别检查单词和伪词时，表现会受到影响。当呈现蓝色或红色时，伪词的识别速度更快，这表明在处理不受更控制过程指导时，可能会受到进化颜色偏好的影响。对于单词，发现了情绪增强效应，对绿色的偏好与效价无关。这些结果表明，根据刺激类型和任务，当处理颜色信息时，控制和更自动的过程确实会相互作用。
