Semantic generalization of punishment-related attentional priority. Academic Article

abstract

• The present study aimed to determine whether attentional prioritization of visual stimuli associated with punishment transfers across conceptual knowledge independently of physical features. Participants performed a Stroop task in which words were presented individually. These stimuli consisted of four pairs of synonyms selected such that the two words of each pair have both a strong semantic association and no perceptual similarity. In the learning phase, two words (from two different pairs) were associated with shock independently of performance; all the other words were never paired with shock. In the subsequent test phase, no shock was delivered. Results are consistent with semantic generalization of punishment-related attentional priority; synonyms of words paired with shock produced a Stroop interference effect (i.e., slower response times) in learning and test phases, relative to synonyms of words not paired with shock, suggesting they were prioritized by attention.

authors

• Anderson, Brian

published proceedings

• Vis cogn

altmetric score

• 0.5

author list (cited authors)

• Grgoire, L., Kim, A. J., & Anderson, B. A.

citation count

• 5

complete list of authors

• Grégoire, Laurent||Kim, Andy J||Anderson, Brian A

publication date

• May 2021

publisher

• Taylor & Francis  Publisher

published in

• Visual Cognition  Journal

keywords

• Associative Learning
• Attentional Prioritization
• Punishment
• Selective Attention
• Semantic Generalization

PubMed Central ID

• 35330958

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1080/13506285.2021.1914796

start page

• 310

end page

• 317

volume

• 29

issue

• 5

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1914796