Associative and Identity Words Promote the Speed of Visual Categorization: A Hierarchical Drift Diffusion Account.

ABSTRACT: Words can either boost or hinder the processing of visual information, which can lead to facilitation or interference of the behavioral response. We investigated the stage (response execution or target processing) of verbal interference/facilitation in the response priming paradigm with a gender categorization task. Participants in our study were asked to judge whether the presented stimulus was a female or male face that was briefly preceded by a gender word either congruent (prime: "man," target: "man"), incongruent (prime: "woman," target: "man") or neutral (prime: "day," target: "man") with respect to the face stimulus. We investigated whether related word-picture pairs resulted in faster reaction times in comparison to the neutral word-picture pairs (facilitation) and whether unrelate

SUBMITTER: Todorova L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7390986 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature