The conceptual grouping effect: Categories matter (and named categories matter more).

@article{citeulike:2772308, abstract = {Do conceptual categories affect basic visual processing? A conceptual grouping effect for familiar stimuli is reported using a visual search paradigm. Search through conceptually-homogeneous non-targets was faster and more efficient than search through conceptually-heterogeneous non-targets. This effect cannot be attributed to perceptual factors and is not explained by a long-term representational reorganization due to perceptual-learning. Rather, conceptual categories seem to modulate visual representations dynamically, and are sensitive to task-demands. Verbally labeling a visual target further exaggerates the degree to which conceptual categories penetrate visual processing.}, address = {Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburg, PA 15213-3890, USA.}, author = {Lupyan, Gary }, citeulike-article-id = {2772308}, doi = {10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.009}, issn = {0010-0277}, journal = {Cognition}, keywords = {categories, visual-search}, month = {April}, posted-at = {2008-05-08 16:23:09}, priority = {2}, title = {The conceptual grouping effect: Categories matter (and named categories matter more).}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.009}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2772308 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2772308 TI - The conceptual grouping effect: Categories matter (and named categories matter more). JF - Cognition AD - Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University and Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburg, PA 15213-3890, USA. SN - 0010-0277 N2 - Do conceptual categories affect basic visual processing? A conceptual grouping effect for familiar stimuli is reported using a visual search paradigm. Search through conceptually-homogeneous non-targets was faster and more efficient than search through conceptually-heterogeneous non-targets. This effect cannot be attributed to perceptual factors and is not explained by a long-term representational reorganization due to perceptual-learning. Rather, conceptual categories seem to modulate visual representations dynamically, and are sensitive to task-demands. Verbally labeling a visual target further exaggerates the degree to which conceptual categories penetrate visual processing. KW - categories KW - visual-search AU - Lupyan, Gary PY - 2008/04/28/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2008.03.009 ER -