Text-contingent color aftereffects: a reexamination.
Percept Psychophys
; 56(4): 405-13, 1994 Oct.
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in En
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| ID: mdl-7984396
ABSTRACT
Five experiments reexamined color aftereffects contingent on the semantic properties of text (Allan, Siegel, Collins, & MacQueen, 1989). The influence of different assessment techniques and the effect of eye movements and overlapping contour information on the induction of color aftereffects by word and nonword letter strings were determined. Experiment 1 showed that no aftereffect was found when a traditional method of assessing color aftereffects was used. Experiments 2 and 4 demonstrated color aftereffects for both words and nonwords, but only when subjects fixated the same locus during induction and testing and only when assessed with the technique described by Allan et al. (1989). If, however, eye movements were made during induction, no color aftereffect was obtained (Experiment 3). Induction to nontext patterns with properties similar to those of text but with fewer overlapping contours resulted in a strong color aftereffect (Experiment 5). These results suggest that the color aftereffect contingent on text is very weak and is not dependent on semantic factors, but that it is a product of induction to local color and orientation information.
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Color Perception
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Language:
En
Journal:
Percept Psychophys
Year:
1994
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Canada