ISSN 0439-755X
CN 11-1911/B
主办:中国心理学会
   中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

心理学报 ›› 2018, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (10): 1071-1082.doi: 10.3724/SP.J.1041.2018.01071

• 研究报告 •    下一篇

语义关联的注意捕获——来自线索化范式的证据

王慧媛1, 隋洁2,3(), 张明4()   

  1. 1长春师范大学心理学系, 长春 130032
    2清华大学心理学系, 北京 100084
    3 Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
    4苏州大学心理学系, 苏州 215123
  • 收稿日期:2017-10-12 发布日期:2018-08-23 出版日期:2018-10-15
  • 基金资助:
    * 国家自然科学基金(31371025);吉林省教育厅“十三五”社会科学项目(JJKH20181210SK);长春师范大学人文社会科学基金项目(长师大社科合字[2017] 001号)资助

Attentional capture is contingent on attentional control setting for semantic meaning: Evidence from modified spatial cueing paradigm

WANG Hui-Yuan1, SUI Jie2,3(), ZHANG Ming4()   

  1. 1 Department of Psychology, Changchun Normal University, Changchun 130032, China
    2 Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
    3 Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
    4 Department of Psychology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
  • Received:2017-10-12 Online:2018-08-23 Published:2018-10-15

摘要:

采用线索化范式, 操作性地建立线索和靶子的语义关联, 考察语义关联对注意捕获的影响。实验1采用特征线索意义靶子的形式, 建立某一特定语义水平的注意控制定势, 发现线索靶子语义一致时线索捕获注意, 线索靶子语义不一致时同样的线索失去捕获注意的能力。实验2随机呈现线索颜色和靶子汉字, 建立两种语义概念的注意控制定势, 发现所有的线索都出现了捕获效应, 而不论其在某一具体试次中是否与靶子意义一致。实验3交换了线索与靶子的属性及概念, 采用意义线索特征靶子的形式, 结果与实验1一致。这些结果表明, (1)语义关联的注意捕获符合关联性的无意注意定向假说, 刺激的捕获能力受当前的注意控制定势调节; (2)由语义概念激活的知觉表征在调节空间注意分配上与其自身相比形式相同, 但程度有所下降; (3)知觉特征水平的注意控制定势能够激活与其相应的语义概念, 使其吸引注意并调节空间注意分配; (4)知觉表征和语义概念的激活可能是双向的, 激活后在指导注意转移上表现出相同的特性。

关键词: 语义关联, 注意捕获, 注意控制定势, 线索化范式, 语义激活

Abstract:

Abstract It has been well documented that attentional capture is contingent on the features of attentional control settings; however, whether and how the semantic contingency between cue and target stimuli modulates spatial attention is poorly understood. Here, we tested this question with strict experiment designs by focusing on pure contingent attentional capture for the semantic meaning of feature attributes or semantic concept cues, and we then examined the nature of attentional control in human visual spatial performance.

A modified spatial cuing paradigm was employed in the current study. In Experiment 1, cues presented in red or green and targets were white Chinese characters “红” (meaning red) or “绿” (meaning green). We had participants discriminate the location of the gap of the target square in different cue-target blocks. Experiments 2 and 3 were identical to Experiment 1, except that in Experiment 2, cue property and target character were randomized, and the task was to discriminate the target as “红” or “绿”; Experiment 3 swapped the cue and target stimuli, where cues were Chinese characters in white and targets were presented in red or green.

The results showed that semantically congruent color cues exclusively captured attention when participants searched for a specific semantic meaning in Experiment 1. In contrast, cuing effects were observed in Experiment 2 in the two-color cue conditions when participants discriminated two Chinese characters, and the effects were independent of the semantic congruency of cue and target. Experiment 3 replicated the results in Experiment 1; cues with semantically congruent Chinese characters captured attention only when participants were required to search for a specific color.

It is concluded that (1) the effects of semantic attentional capture were modulated by attentional control setting, consistent with a contingent attentional orienting hypothesis; (2) the perceptional representation of stimuli activated by semantic concept modulated the processing of stimuli on the location of spatial attention, but the magnitude of the effect decreased; (3) the congruent semantic representation was activated by attentional control setting for perceptional feature and subsequently modulated the allocation of attention; and (4) activation of semantic concept and perceptional representation may be bidirectional and resemble each other in traits of attention shift guidance.

Key words: semantic contingency, attentional capture, attentional control setting, modified spatial cuing paradigm, semantic activation

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