Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (2): 157-164.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.02.04

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The Effects of Trained Lexical Categories on Color Perception: Evidences from ERPs

ZHONG Weifang1,2, RU Taotao1, LI You1, PENG Shaoling1, MO Lei1   

  1. 1. Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China;
    2. Guangdong Justice Police Vocational College, Guangzhou 510520, China
  • Online:2015-03-15 Published:2015-03-15

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Abstract: The current research investigated how lexical categories affected color perception. In Experiment 1, participants received a short-term color name and color re-organization training, which aimed to change two within-category colors into between-category colors, and then finished a visual search task. Results showed that, after training, participants distinguished two colors similar to the trained colors faster in the right visual field than in the left visual field. In Experiment 2, participants received the same training as Experiment 1, and then completed a visual Oddball task. Results showed that the deviants similar to the trained colors evoked larger vMMN effects in the right visual field than in the left visual field. These findings suggested that the trained lexical categories distort or warp color perception in a short time. In addition, the trained lexical categories distort or warp the perception of a color category rather than a certain color exemplar.

Key words: Whorf hypothesis, lexical category, category learning, color categorical perception, vMMN

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  • B844
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