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Independent effects of colour on object identification and memory
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Kazuyo Nakabayashi
The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 310 - 322
Swansea University Author:
Toby Lloyd-Jones
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/17470210801954827
Abstract
We examined the effects of colour on object identification and memory using a study–test priming procedure with a coloured-object decision task at test (i.e., deciding whether an object is correctly coloured). Objects were selected to have a single associated colour and were either correctly or inco...
| Published in: | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology |
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| ISSN: | 1747-0218 1747-0226 |
| Published: |
2009
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We examined the effects of colour on object identification and memory using a study–test priming procedure with a coloured-object decision task at test (i.e., deciding whether an object is correctly coloured). Objects were selected to have a single associated colour and were either correctly or incorrectly coloured. In addition, object shape and colour were either spatially integrated (i.e., colour fell onthe object surface) or spatially separated (i.e., colour formed the background to the object). Transforming the colour of an object from study to test (e.g., from a yellow banana to a purple banana) reduced priming of response times, as compared to when the object was untransformed. This utilization of colour information in object memory was not contingent upon colour falling on the object surface or whether the resulting configuration was of a correctly or incorrectly coloured object. In addition, we observed independent effects of colour on response times, whereby coloured-object decisions were more efficient for correctly than for incorrectly coloured objects but only when colour fell on the object surface. These findings provide evidence for two distinct mechanisms of shape–colour binding in object processing. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences |
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2 |
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310 |
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322 |