The picture superiority effect in categorization: visual or semantic?
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
; 18(5): 1019-28, 1992 Sep.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1402707
ABSTRACT
Two experiments are reported whose aim was to replicate and generalize the results presented by Snodgrass and McCullough (1986) on the effect of visual similarity in the categorization process. For pictures, Snodgrass and McCullough's results were replicated because Ss took longer to discriminate elements from 2 categories when they were visually similar than when they were visually dissimilar. However, unlike Snodgrass and McCullough, an analogous increase was also observed for word stimuli. The pattern of results obtained here can be explained most parsimoniously with reference to the effect of semantic similarity, or semantic and visual relatedness, rather than to visual similarity alone.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Orientation
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Pattern Recognition, Visual
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Reaction Time
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Attention
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Semantics
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Discrimination Learning
Limits:
Adult
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn
Year:
1992
Document type:
Article