Verbal labels have a special status in influencing visual processing beyond mere association¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2014 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Auditory verbal labels facilitate orientation discrimination for associated objects whereas equally associated non-verbal sounds do not, and the label priming effect is greater for typical category members. → Collins 2014

Evidence¶

Collins 2014¶

Collins, Jessica A., & Olson, Ingrid R. (2014). Knowledge is Power: How Conceptual Knowledge Transforms Visual Cognition. Psychonomic bulletin & review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-013-0564-3

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports Lupyan and Thompson-Schill's behavioral finding that "performance on an orientation discrimination task was facilitated when the image was preceded by the auditory presentation of a verbal label, but not by a sound that was equally associated with the object." No effect size is printed.

"participants more quickly and accurately indicated which side of a display contained an upright cow following the presentation of the word “cow” but not following the presentation of an auditory “moo”"

Discussion¶

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