Colour Terms Affect Detection of Colour and Colour-Associated Objects Suppressed from Visual Awareness.

ABSTRACT: The idea that language can affect how we see the world continues to create controversy. A potentially important study in this field has shown that when an object is suppressed from visual awareness using continuous flash suppression (a form of binocular rivalry), detection of the object is differently affected by a preceding word prime depending on whether the prime matches or does not match the object. This may suggest that language can affect early stages of vision. We replicated this paradigm and further investigated whether colour terms likewise influence the detection of colours or colour-associated object images suppressed from visual awareness by continuous flash suppression. This method presents rapidly changing visual noise to one eye while the target stimulus is presented to the

SUBMITTER: Forder L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4811409 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature