Original Article
Short-term trained lexical categories produce preattentive categorical perception of color: Evidence from ERPs
Weifang Zhong,
You Li,
Peixin Li,
Guiping Xu,
Lei Mo,
Weifang Zhong
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorYou Li
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorPeixin Li
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorGuiping Xu
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Lei Mo
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Address correspondence to: Lei Mo, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorWeifang Zhong,
You Li,
Peixin Li,
Guiping Xu,
Lei Mo,
Weifang Zhong
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorYou Li
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorPeixin Li
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorGuiping Xu
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Search for more papers by this authorCorresponding Author
Lei Mo
Center for Studies of Psychological Application and School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China
Address correspondence to: Lei Mo, School of Psychology, South China Normal University, 510631 Guangzhou, P. R. China. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorThis work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (31170997) and National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (2012CB720704).
Abstract
The present study investigated whether short-term trained lexical categories could produce lateralized preattentive categorical perception (CP) of color. Participants' event-related potentials were recorded while performing a visual oddball task in which standard and deviant colored stimuli from the same or different novel lexical categories were presented. Two groups of participants were recruited: a group trained on these novel categories (n = 26), and an untrained control group (n = 26). Results of paired t tests showed that deviants did not evoke significant visual mismatch negativity, with the exception of deviants from different novel categories presented in the right visual field of the training group. This suggests that short-term trained lexical categories produce lateralized preattentive color CP, and language enhances sensitivity to the differences among between-category stimuli.
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