The Influence of Color on Visual Search Based on Time

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of the study was to examine whether the inhibition based on the colors of old items would occur, and whether the non-inhibition mechanism could explain the preview benefits in prioritizing selection in preview search based on time. In this experiment, three conditions which were all preview search conditions were included. The most obvious differences of the three conditions were that the color of targets was different for each condition. The results showed that the performances of green target were not slower than the blue target. Instead, the search performance of the green target was faster than that of the blue one and was the same as that of the yellow one. Therefore, the results did not seem to support visual marking hypothesis which emphasizes the inhibition of the old items, regardless of location-based or feature-based inhibition. Based on these findings, the top-down mechanism of non-inhibition processing of prioritizing selection in preview search was reinforced.

Key words: preview search, preview benefits, color, visual marking

摘要： 旨在探讨颜色属性对基于时间的图形预览搜索的影响及其机制。实验采用视觉标记实验范式的变式考察三种颜色的图形刺激的预览收益。结果发现：搜索与旧干扰物相同颜色的靶子和搜索新异颜色刺激并未出现反应时的差异，而且，两者都快于搜索与新干扰物颜色相同的靶子。这说明，在图形刺激的预览搜索中，观察者没有主动抑制旧干扰物的颜色，而是主动加工新出现的刺激。还探讨了基于颜色标记的抑制机制和主动非抑制机制。

关键词: 预览搜索, 预览收益, 颜色, 视觉标记

CLC Number:

B842.2

Hao Fang，Liu Changjiang. The Influence of Color on Visual Search Based on Time[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2015, 13(2): 205-210.

郝芳, 刘长江. 颜色对基于时间的视觉选择的影响[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2015, 13(2): 205-210.

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