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  • Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception

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  • Human visual categorization is highly efficient.
  • Previous research suggested object and scene categorization might be automatic processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the hypothesis that object and scene categorization are automatic.
  • To investigate automaticity in visual categorization using a modified Stroop paradigm.

Main Methods:

  • A modified Stroop task was employed with object/scene words presented over corresponding images.
  • Participants classified words as object or scene terms while ignoring images.
  • Congruent and incongruent stimuli were used to measure processing costs.

Main Results:

  • Incongruent stimuli incurred a processing cost for both object and scene categorizations.
  • Automatic processing was evident for entry-level scene categories.
  • Automatic processing was not observed for superordinate-level scene categories.

Conclusions:

  • Entry-level visual categorization is an automatic and obligatory process.
  • Not all rapid visual categorizations are automatic, particularly at higher levels of abstraction.