Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field

Drivonikou, GV, Clifford, A, Franklin, A and Davies, IRL (2011) Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field In: Progress in Colour Studies: New Directions in Colour Studies. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, NL, Amsterdam and Philadelphia, pp. 251-264. ISBN 9027211884

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Abstract

There is indirect evidence that categorical colour perception (better discrimination of colours from different categories than those from the same category — CP) can be learned. For instance, CP can be induced across a newly learned category boundary (Özgen & Davies, 2002). Here we replicate and extend Özgen and Davies’s category learning study, to try and pinpoint the nature of the changes underlying category learning. Participants learned to divide green into two new egories ‘yellow-green’ /‘blue-green’ across four days. The trained group showed CP across the new boundary on a target detection task and this was restricted to the left hemisphere (LH; cf. Drivonikou et al. 2007), whereas the controls did not. The results could suggest that category training produces changes at early stages in visual processing mainly in the LH.

Item Type:	Book Section
Divisions :	Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences > School of Psychology
Authors :	Drivonikou, GV, Clifford, A, Franklin, A and Davies, IRL
Editors :	Name Email ORCID Biggam, CP Hough, CJ Simmons, KD
Date :	2011
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Additional Information :	This is an electronic copy of a book chapter published as Drivonikou GV, Clifford AM, Franklin A, Davies IRL (2011). Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field. In Progress in Colour Studies: New Directions in Colour Studies. Editors: Biggam CP, Hough CJ, Simmons KD. 251-264. John Benjamins, Amsterdam, NL, Amsterdam and Philadelphia. Posted with the publisher's permission. To re-use or reprint this material in any form, please contact the publisher. http://www.benjamins.com/#home
Depositing User :	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited :	08 May 2012 16:07
Last Modified :	06 Jul 2019 05:09
URI:	http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/231720

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