The influence of memory on perception: it's not what things look like, it's what you call them.

نویسندگان

  • Holger Mitterer
  • Jörn M Horschig
  • Jochen Müsseler
  • Asifa Majid
چکیده

World knowledge influences how we perceive the world. This study shows that this influence is at least partly mediated by declarative memory. Dutch and German participants categorized hues from a yellow-to-orange continuum on stimuli that were prototypically orange or yellow and that were also associated with these color labels. Both groups gave more "yellow" responses if an ambiguous hue occurred on a prototypically yellow stimulus. The language groups were also tested on a stimulus (traffic light) that is associated with the label orange in Dutch and with the label yellow in German, even though the objective color is the same for both populations. Dutch observers categorized this stimulus as orange more often than German observers, in line with the assumption that declarative knowledge mediates the influence of world knowledge on color categorization.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition

دوره 35 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009