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The Boundary Condition of the Semantic Object-Based Attention: The Role of Object Representation

  • Zhuyang LI ,
  • Kaihui ZHANG ,
  • Qiaoming ZHANG ,
  • Lu LIU
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  • School of Educational Science, Ludong University, Yantai 264011

Received date: 2022-05-23

  Online published: 2023-01-17

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Abstract

It has been found that the high-frequency words could guide the object-based attention while the low-frequency words could not. The reason for this phenomenon may be that the representation intensity of the two-character words with different word frequencies is different in the mental dictionary. The purpose of this study was to investigate the boundary condition of the semantic object-based attention guided by the low-frequency words by using the learning task and the adapted two-rectangle cueing paradigm. The results showed that the low-frequency words could not guide the semantic object-based attention before learning, but they guide the obvious object-based attention after learning. The results suggest that the intensity of the semantic object representation plays an important role to determine the occurrence of the semantic object-based attention.

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Zhuyang LI , Kaihui ZHANG , Qiaoming ZHANG , Lu LIU . The Boundary Condition of the Semantic Object-Based Attention: The Role of Object Representation[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2022 , 20(6) : 747 -752 . DOI: 10.12139/j.1672-0628.2022.06.005

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